(29 May 2024)
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Cape Town – 29 May 2024
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1. Wide of voters lining up outside polling station
2. Voters entering polling station gate
3. Various of voters lining up outside polling station
4. Various of polling station interior
5. Wide of man casting ballot, zoom in to ballot box
STORYLINE:
Cape Town residents have begun lining up outside polling stations in the early morning hours on Wednesday to cast their ballots in what may prove to be a sea-change general election in South Africa.
At stake is the three-decade dominance of the African National Congress party, which led South Africa out of apartheid’s brutal white minority rule in 1994. It is now the target of a new generation of discontent in a country of 62 million people — half of whom are estimated to be living in poverty.
Africa’s most advanced economy has some of the world’s deepest socioeconomic problems, including one of the worst unemployment rates at 32%.
The lingering inequality, with poverty and joblessness disproportionately affecting the Black majority, threatens to unseat the party that promised to end it by bringing down apartheid under the slogan of a better life for all.
After winning six successive national elections, several polls have the ANC’s support at less than 50% ahead of this one, an unprecedented drop. It might lose its majority in Parliament for the first time, although it’s widely expected to hold the most seats.
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