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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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Farouk Chothia Mohammed Allie
BBC News, Johannesburg BBC News, Cape Town
Here at the Joubert Park polling station in downtown Johannesburg, voters wearing the colours of the governing African National Congress (ANC) are rivalling those dressed in merchandise from uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), the breakaway party led by former President Jacob Zuma.
Surprisingly, there is no-one in the colours of the radical Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), despite the fact that it came second to the ANC at this polling station in the 2019 election.
In his green, gold and black outfit - the colours of the ANC - voter Patrick Nwenyi tells me: “I’m ANC, right to my underwear.”
Nurse Loveness Nyathi is also dressed in ANC colours and knits as she stands in the queue. Mansoer and Wardia Safodien, both 73, cast their vote in Athlone in the coastal city of Cape Town earlier.
“I’m proud of the ANC. Today we can vote and speak freely because of the ANC,” she says. She refers to the fact that the ANC led the struggle against the racist system of apartheid, which ended in 1994. “I’ve voted in all the previous six elections," says Mansoer.
"It’s important for us to use our vote because people sacrificed so much for us to be able to vote, which we couldn’t do under apartheid.”
There are also a couple of people wearing MK T-shirts, which have the black power salute stamped on them. This is the seventh general election since the racist system of apartheid ended in 1994 when anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela was elected president.
One of the MK supporters, Sabelo Mungwe, says he will vote for the party because the price of food and electricity have gone up since Zuma was ousted in 2018 by current President Cyril Ramaphosa. "The economy is worse now under these criminals,” he says
Over years, support for the ANC has waned because of anger over high levels of corruption, crime and unemployment.
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