At the dawn of South Africa’s democracy after the fall of the racist apartheid government, millions lined up before sunrise to cast their ballots in the country’s first free and fair election in 1994.
South Africa is now heading into a pivotal election on Wednesday, in which voters will determine which party — or alliance — will pick the president.
This downward curve has mirrored the support for South Africa’s governing party, the African National Congress, or A.N.C., which was a liberation movement before becoming a political machine.
A new generation of voters do not have the lived experience of apartheid nor the emotional connection that their parents and grandparents had to the party.
as a governing party is all young people know, and they blame it for their joblessness, rampant crime and an economy blighted by electricity blackouts.
Persons:
Nelson Mandela
Organizations:
South, African National Congress
Locations:
South Africa