Johanna Ditsela lives within sight of the gleaming skyscrapers of South Africa&#...
JOHANNESBURG - Johanna Ditsela lives within sight of the gleaming skyscrapers of South Africa’s main financial district, but has existed in squalor for 30 years.
The shocking conditions in which people like Ditsela live are a big problem for the governing African National Congress , which faces mounting public anger over its failure to improve the lives of millions of the poorest citizens, 25 years after the end of white minority rule. But he said the ANC provincial government would do more to develop the township and put a stop to newcomers erecting illegal shacks in already overcrowded areas.
The ANC is expected to win another parliamentary majority next month, but analysts say its share of the vote will probably fall from the 62 percent it received in 2014. if turnout is low, it could lose control of Johannesburg’s Gauteng province.Alexandra residents say a government project to develop the township, launched to much fanfare in 2001, has barely scratched the surface of what needs to be done.
High-profile politicians stop by Alexandra before elections, but residents say that, when the votes are counted, the visits dry up.
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