South Africa schedules election as Mandela's party fights to retain 30-year majority

South Africa will hold its national election on May 29, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Tuesday. Ramaphosa's ruling African National Congress, the party once led by Nelson Mandela, is expected to face a stern test to retain its majority in South Africa's seventh fully democratic national election since the end of the apartheid system of forced racial segregation in 1994. Before 1994, Black people were not allowed to vote. SOUTH AFRICA'S UNEMPLOYMENT RATE, THE HIGHEST IN THE WORLD, CONTINUES TO RISE AHEAD OF ELECTION The ANC, which led the anti-apartheid...