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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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Anne Soy | |
BBC News, Durban | |
At City Hall in Durban, in Kwa-Zulu-Natal province, older voters are helped up the | |
staircase to join a special queue for those over the age of 60. | |
One of them, 89-year-old | |
Elayne Dykman, tells me she hopes that young people in South Africa do not take their | |
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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