ANC faces bruising defeat in South African local elections with 80% of ballots counted

What the coverage shows

Both outlets frame the story as a local election test for the ANC and tie voter anger to failing public services. Al Jazeera uses the broader, more neutral headline about a test for the embattled party, while The Guardian US foregrounds anger over poor services and says the party is expected to get less than a third of the vote. The Guardian’s extract is the only one that specifically mentions water outages and power cuts.

Written by Crossfiled from the 2 headlines and extracts below, not from the articles themselves. It describes how the outlets framed this, not what happened. Open any headline for a summary of that article.