South Africa’s ruling ANC was fighting Wednesday to defy expectations that it could lose its three-decade-long exclusive grip on power, as voters turned out for a watershed general election. As Delano D’Souza and Ann Wentzel report, More than 27 million registered voters are headed to the polls, amid widespread apathy and disillusionment, for the most uncertain general election since the African National Congress (ANC) led the nation out of apartheid rule. With opposition challenges from both the left and right, unemployment and crime at near record levels and a new generation growing up with no memory of the struggle against white-minority rule, the ruling party may be forced to share power. With the ANC’s three-decade dominance in South African politics hanging in the balance, FRANCE 24’s Nadia Massih is joined by Dirk Kotze, Professor of Political Sciences at the University of South Africa (UNISA).
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