(30 May 2024)
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++EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: STORYLINE AMENDED TO INCLUDE PARTIAL ELECTION RESULTS++
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Mahlabathini, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa – 30 May 2024
1. Wide of MK Party supporters singing and dancing in the streets of Mahlabathini township as preliminary results show the party leading in the KwaZulu-Natal province
2. Various of MK Party supporters dancing in formation in the streets
3. Wide of dancing feet
4. MK Party supporters singing and dancing
5. SOUNDBITE (Zulu): Thandi Hlope, MK Supporter:
“The ANC (African National Congress) has failed us for 30 years. They failed to bring us real freedom but for us, Msholozo (Jacob Zuma) will bring us our freedom. We just wish for them to succeed and take us forward.”
6. Close of MK Party supporters wearing the party t-shirt dancing
7. SOUNDBITE (Zulu): Mhlonipheni Mfika, MK Supporter:
“We are going to get everything the we need in KZN, now that we have taken the province. We have won, already. All that is missing is finding out if we win the national vote. We trust that once they take over, water tanks will be a thing of the past and we will have water in our taps again.”
8. Wide of MK Party supporters singing and dancing
9. SOUNDBITE (Zulu): Sakhile Gumede, MK supporter and community leader:
“When he (Jacob Zuma) became president people had negative things to say because he wanted to fix the country. They then decided to kick him out (of the ANC) and that is because they realised that his mission was to uplift black people. So that the wealth and the land returns to black people. So because he wanted to fix the country, they conspired to put him out.”
10. Various of MK Party supporters singing and dancing UPSOUND Car horns
STORYLINE:
uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Party supporters were seen celebrating in the streets of Mahlabathini township in rural KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa late Thursday, amid reports the party is faring well in early provincial results.
Partial results in the country’s national election show the new MK Party of former President Jacob Zuma leading the race in the province against the ruling ANC, who’ve had a stronghold there for the last 20 years.
They show MK Party getting 44% of the provincial vote with 29% of the votes captured.
South Africans voted on Wednesday in what many view as the country’s most contested election since the 1994 democratic elections.
The final results were expected to take days, with the independent electoral commission saying they would be delivered by Sunday, although they could come earlier.
South Africans were waiting with baited breath to see if their country, Africa’s most advanced economy, was about to enter a new era.
AP Video shot by Sebabatso Mosamo
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