South Africans head to polls on May 29 in the most competitive general election in three decades, where the ruling African National Congress (ANC) faces growing disillusionment and risks losing its outright majority.
South Africans head to polls on May 29 in the most competitive general election in three decades, where the ruling African National Congress faces growing disillusionment and risks losing its outright majority.Here are five main points shaping the ballot to elect a new National Assembly whose members will vote for the president.South Africa has one of the highest unemployment rates in the world. As a result, millions of people in the continent’s most industrialised economy live in poverty.
“Born frees”, young people born post-apartheid, are the largest victims of the jobless rate, with youth unemployment sitting at more than 40%.Despite the lack of jobs, South Africa attracts many economic migrants from elsewhere in Africa, with some 2.4 million foreigners officially registered in the country.
In April, the government approved a reform of the immigration laws that, if adopted, would increase the number of deportations.Party membership has dropped by more than 30% in the last five years, according to an organisational report in 2022. The outages started on a very low level 15 years ago but scaled up calamitously last year, leaving consumers without power for up to 12 hours a day.
The country’s net zero ambitions and transition to cleaner energy have so far proven difficult, with solar accounting for under 3% of electricity production, according to Eskom.South Africa recorded almost 84 murders a day between October and December, according to police statistics.
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