JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling African National Congress wants the national budget "re-prioritised" to focus on tackling poverty, unemployment and inequality following local election defeats this month, the party said on Sunday.
The ANC lost its majority in key urban districts including Johannesburg, the municipality encompassing the capital Pretoria and the symbolically important Nelson Mandela Bay municipality - its biggest setbacks since coming to power in 1994 at the end of white-minority rule.
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