Polls open in South Africas's presidential and parliamentary elections amid issues of corruption and unemployment
A voter casts his ballot at a polling station during the South Africa'sÊparliamentary and provincial elections, in Alexandra township, Johannesburg, South Africa, on May 8, 2019.
The African National Congress, the party of Nelson Mandela that has been in power since 1994, is likely to win a majority but it will face a difficult challenge to do as well as five years ago. The ANC also has vowed to embark on a program of seizing white-owned land without compensation, for which it needs a 67% majority to change South Africa's constitution.
The largest opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, has campaigned vigorously against corruption but its support among the country's black majority is limited because it is perceived as a white-run party. More than 40 smaller parties also are vying for power in the balloting.
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