Voters line up in the early hours to cast their ballot for general elections in Alexandra, near Johannesburg, South Africa on Wednesday.
South Africans began voting on Wednesday in the most competitive election since the end of apartheid, with opinion polls suggesting the African National Congress will lose its parliamentary majority after 30 years in government.Thomson ReutersVoters line up in the early hours to cast their ballot for general elections in Alexandra, near Johannesburg, South Africa, on Wednesday. South Africans are voting in an election seen as their country's most important in 30 years.
Cyril Ramaphosa, president of the ruling African National Congress and South African's incumbent president, casts his vote in Soweto on Wednesday. "There's a lot of uncertainty with what's going to happen. Are we going to have a coalition?" asked student and first-time-voter Amena Luke, 19, as she waited to cast her ballot at Berario Recreation Centre in Johannesburg.International relations analyst, Alexander Rusero joins to talk about South Africa's 1994 election.Get the latest on CBCNews.ca, the CBC News App, and CBC News Network for breaking news and analysis.
There were 27,494 killings in South Africa in the year to February 2023, compared with 16,213 in 2012-2013. That's a homicide rate of 45 per 100,000 people, compared to 6.3 in the U.S. and 2.25 in Canada. Turnout in South African elections has gradually dropped over the years as disenchantment with the ANC set in.Outside the polling station at Midrand High School, in a northern suburb of Johannesburg, voters waited in a long line that stretched down the street and around the corner. Some were wrapped in blankets to fend off the morning cold.
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