Party’s leaders are more nervous than ever that it will lose its majority for the first time since Nelson Mandela led it to victory
that despite the country’s myriad problems, the ruling party was still confident of victory in Wednesday’s pivotal elections.
A generational divide is opening up. At Soweto’s FNB stadium – the venue, then known as Soccer City, that hosted theOn the day of South Africa’s first free elections in 1994 Girlfaith Dlamini was nine months pregnant. While her fellow South Africans queued for hours to cast their votes, Dlamini was taken to the front. “I was treated like a president,” she said. Her daughter was born two weeks later, the day after Mandela was sworn in – now she’s studying chartered accounting at Wits University.
There is no shortage of other options, with 52 parties on the ballot, the most popular of which aside from the ANC is the Democratic Alliance , which has gained a reputation for its relatively impressive management of Cape Town and Western Cape province.
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