(30 May 2024)
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Nkandla, South Africa – 29 May 2024
1. Wide of MK Party supporters standing and talking outside a polling station in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal
2. Mid of poster of Jacob Zuma, South Afria’s former president, strapped to the windshield of a car outside polling station in Nkandla
3. Wide of a group of young girls standing outside a polling station
4. Mid of young girls collectively responding “Yes” to a question being asked by someone off-camera, pan to man asking: UPSOUND (Zulu): Are we voting for the first time today?" Girls: "Yes."
Man: "Are you excited about voting today? Are you like me back in 1994? (1994 – South Africa’s first democratic election)? Girls laughing
Man: "But 1994 was also my first time voting.”
6. SOUNDBITE (Zulu) Amahle Ncane, first-time voter:
“My vote today signifies a lot because there is so much that we are still hopeful for as MK to be a success."
7. Mid of Amahle shouting “We are so happy to be able to vote today” and her friends responding “Yes” outside polling station in Nkandla
8. SOUNDBITE (Zulu) Amahle Ncane, first-time voter:
"We want to see an end to poverty as the youth in South Africa. That is why we came out in our numbers as the youth to vote for MK because we have faith that it will lift us out of poverty and place us where we envision ourselves."
9. Mid of young first-time voters singing a song saying, UPSOUND (Zulu) "We are fearless” outside outside polling station in Nkandla
STORYLINE:
Some young South Africans in a poor, rural area of rolling hills were determined to vote in Wednesday’s national election.
Turning peer pressure on its head, they encouraged each other to register as voters, before flocking to polling stations on election day.
They say they desperately hope their votes count and their dreams are not deferred in what they saw happen to their parents and other older relatives after South Africa’s defining 1994 election brought down apartheid but didn’t solve the poverty for so many.
Many youths have seen this election as the most important since that moment three decades ago.
"We want to see an end to poverty as the youth in South Africa," said 20-year-old Amahle Ncane.
First time voters, moving as a group, flocked to the polling station at Ntolwane Primary School in Nkandla, a rural area in the eastern province of KwaZulu-Natal.
Outside the dusty school premises in the mountainous and picturesque area, they hugged, danced and sang “we are fearless.”
AP video shot by Sebabatso Mosamo
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