This year is the 30th anniversary of South Africa’s first democratic elections, but millions of people continue to suffer from economic challenges similar to those during apartheid.
Most Black South Africans do not earn enough to meet their basic needs.
All this has placed the African National Congress, the liberation party that has governed since the start of South Africa’s democracy, under more pressure than ever before as it enters an election on May 29.
In the six previous national elections, the party comfortably won an absolute majority in Parliament, allowing it to govern as it wished.
The party has also had to work hard to heal its internal divisions and address corruption among its ranks.
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