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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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Barbara Plett Usher | |
BBC News, Soweto | |
As in numerous other polling stations across South Africa, voting was delayed at a Soweto school located a short walk from where anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela used to live. | |
People have been patient but it’s clear the political landscape for Mandela’s party, the governing African National Congress (ANC), is changing. | |
“We are excited that more parties have come on board,” says 50-year-old Thabiso Motea. “We don’t want just one party ruling.” | |
Linda Malinda, 68, says casting her vote would make a change, and that she wants a lot of that. | |
“Most of our children they’ve gone into drugs because of frustration - they can’t get jobs, they can’t go to school, the money’s not there. | |
She says she is still planning to vote for the ANC, because “changing my vote will make things worse”. | |
But 18-year-old Ntokoto Ngobeni was waiting to “vote out some people” and cast his first-ever ballot for the radical Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party. | |
Whatever the outcome of this election, it feels like it marks the end of an era. | |
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