The polls will be a severe test for the African National Congress which has held power virtually unchallenged in post-apartheid South Africa.
JOHANNESBURG - The election 25 years ago of South Africa's first black president, the late Nelson Mandela, who inspired the struggle against apartheid, was a time of soaring hope that the bruised country would reconcile after decades of discrimination and inequality.
Instead, after initial sharp gains in the period 1994 to 2006 - when annual growth hit rates above 5.0% - the economy crashed in 2008 as the global financial crisis undermined investment and foreign demand. Beyond the figures, corruption has become endemic, badly tainting the government apparatus and public companies, especially in the 2009-2018 term of president Jacob Zuma who was eventually forced from office.
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