South Africans are voting at schools, community centers, and in large white tents set up in open fields in an election seen as their country’s most important in 30 years. It could put the young democracy in unknown territory. 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 unemployment rates upwards of 30%. As lingering inequality, poverty and joblessness threaten to unseat the party that promised a "better life for all", FRANCE 24’s Genie Godula is joined by Richard Calland, Emeritus Associate Professor in the Department of Public Law at the University of Capetown and Fellow of the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.
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