FIVE main points shaping the ballot to elect a new National Assembly whose members will vote for the president.
main points shaping the ballot to elect a new National Assembly whose members will vote for the president.
The rise of unemployment has been fuelled by the country’s almost stagnant economy over the last decade and only grew 0.6 percent in 2023. The nation is periodically plagued by anti-immigrant violence. Sixty-two people died in riots in 2008 and violent clashes broke out in 2015, 2016 and again in 2019.
A ground-breaking probe into state corruption under ex-leader Jacob Zuma between 2009 and 2018 exposed looting of public coffers for years.President Cyril Ramaphosa, who came into office promising a “new dawn” after Zuma’s scandal-rocked tenure, came under fire in 2022 when he was accused of concealing the theft of a huge haul of foreign currency from his farm instead of reporting it to police.
Although South Africa is one of the globe’s largest greenhouse polluters, the environmental issue has almost been absent in election campaigning.
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