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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 Anne Soy
BBC News, Johannesburg BBC News, Durban
Several voters at the Joubert Park polling station in Johannesburg have been complaining that they have been unable to vote because they came up on the voters' roll as dead. At City Hall in Durban, in Kwa-Zulu-Natal province, older voters are helped up the
But the election commission’s area manager, Charlotte Hlongwane, denies they have been disenfranchised. staircase to join a special queue for those over the age of 60.
She tells me that these people had “fake” ID books, and the commission’s system - which is linked to that of the Home Affairs department - picked this up. One of them, 89-year-old
She says voting is now going smoothly unlike early in the morning when there was a “network problem”, forcing election staff to do everything manually. Elayne Dykman, tells me she hopes that young people in South Africa do not take their
The scanners need to connect to the internet to verify the IDs, but if they cannot do so the physical voters' roll is on hand. vote for granted.
Savathri Naidoo, 84, says she hopes her vote will bring
change for pensioners: “The pension is too low and rent high.”
This poll is crucial too for the younger generation who are beset by high unemployment rates.
Around 45% of young South Africans do not have jobs - Ayanda Hlekwane, born two years after the end of apartheid in 1994, is among this group. He’s never found employment despite holding three degrees.
Last year he completed his Masters in food nutrition and says he’s kept going back to college to avoid sitting at home unemployed.
“I’m working on my PhD proposal so that I go back to study in case I don’t get a job,” he says.
He wants his vote to make a difference: “I feel optimistic there will be change.”
Outside the polling stations, four political parties have set up branded tents to help voters confirm their electoral registration details before joining the queue.
Dressed in their party colours, they sit calmly - the atmosphere is respectful.
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