Country goes to polls on 29 May and unemployment, inequality and power cuts have dented ruling party’s supportSouth Africans go to the polls on 29 May in elections in which the ruling African National Congress party could lose its majority for the first time since it swept to power in 1994 after the end of apartheid. Chronic unemployment, inequality, power cuts and corruption have contributed to a haemorrhaging of support for the ANC, which won the 2019 election with 57.5% of the vote. Continue... Read this story
