South Africans are voting in an election seen as their country’s most important in 30 years, and one that could put their young democracy in unknown territory.
1 hour agoYoung boys walk past election posters in Tembisa, east of Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday, May 28, 2024, ahead of the elections on Wednesday May 29. seen as their country's most important in 30 years, and one that could put their young democracy in unknown territory.in 1994. It is now the target of a new generation of discontent in a country of 62 million people — half of whom are estimated to be living in poverty.
Support has been fading. The ANC won 57.5% of the vote in the last national election in 2019, its worst result to date. “Ever since I existed — I don’t know, maybe my parents — but I’ve never seen anything that is of change,” said 22-year-old Michelle Khamanga, a recent college graduate who is one of the millions of youth who weren’t born when apartheid ended and are now able to vote. They know only of South Africa’s current problems., but fragmented.
Some South Africans will express their discontent by not showing up, tired of promises unfulfilled. “They are going to say they will build houses for us, they are going to say everything. But after tomorrow they will forget about us, and then it is another five years, and then what then? So I do not think I am going to vote,” said Tawfiqa Daas in Cape Town.
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