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South Africa elections 2024: Can ANC overcome challenge from Zuma, DA, EFF and others? - BBC News South Africa elections 2024: Can ANC overcome challenge from Zuma, DA, EFF and others? - BBC News
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The party that has governed South Africa since the end of white-minority rule is holding its breath as voters cast their ballots. Farouk Chothia
Opinion polls have consistently suggested the African National Congress (ANC) will lose its parliamentary majority for the first time, forcing it to enter into a coalition with one or more opposition party. BBC News, Johannesburg
Taking the last three decades as a whole, South Africans, on average, have become richer. Poverty levels have fallen and, in general, people have access to better housing and health care.
But the election campaign has been dominated by widespread corruption in government, the high levels of unemployment, deteriorating public services and rampant crime. Polling stations have officially opened in South Africa but voting has not yet started at the biggest one - Joubert Park in downtown Johannesburg.
The graph below shows how the ANC’s share of the vote at general elections has been falling steadily since its high-water mark of 70% in 2004. Election officials are frantically busy, putting up voting booths made of cardboard and taping ballot boxes together.
Because of the huge number of voters here, the polling station has been split into three voting booths with 20 to 30 people in each queue.
First in one of the queues is Steve Khoza, wearing a tie and standing with a crutch.
He is a security guard who was attacked by robbers while on his way to work in 2011.
Mr Khoza has come to the polling station straight from a night shift and is patiently waiting to cast his ballot.
He won’t tell me who he’ll vote for but, not surprisingly, crime is at the top of his mind.
He says the government must get to grips with it, and build a loyal and disciplined police force.
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