South Africans voted at schools, community centres and in large white tents set up in open fields in an election seen as their country’s most important in 30 years.At stake is the three-decade dominance of the African National Congress party, which led South Africa out of apartheid’s brutal white minority rule in 1994.
The main opposition leader, John Steenhuisen, countered: “For the first time in 30 years, there is now a path to victory for the opposition.” The lingering inequality, with poverty and joblessness disproportionately affecting the black majority, threatens to unseat the party that promised to end it by bringing down apartheid under the slogan of a better life for all.
The ANC won 57.5% of the vote in the last national election in 2019, its worst result to date and down from a high of nearly 70% of the vote 20 years ago.The ANC has asked for more time and patience. Disgruntled South Africans are moving to an array of opposition parties; more than 50 will contest the national election, many of them new.
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