{"id":130922,"date":"2024-05-30T09:10:30","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T06:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/south-africans-vote-in-most-competitive-election-since-apartheid-ended\/"},"modified":"2024-05-30T09:10:30","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T06:10:30","slug":"south-africans-vote-in-most-competitive-election-since-apartheid-ended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/south-africans-vote-in-most-competitive-election-since-apartheid-ended\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africans vote in most competitive election since apartheid ended"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130922\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nSouth Africans voted on Wednesday in the most competitive election since the end of apartheid, amid high turnout and with opinion polls suggesting the African National Congress may lose its parliamentary majority after 30 years in government. Well after dark, voters were still forming miles-long queues to cast their ballots. Chief Electoral Officer Sy Mamabolo told a news conference that turnout &#8220;will be well beyond the 66% we had in 2019&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Electoral Commission said polling stations would stay open for anyone who was in line at the closing time at 9 p.m. (1900 GMT). Two hours later, only 55% of polling stations nationwide had closed. &#8220;We are experiencing a late surge and are processing a large number of votes in certain areas, particularly the metropolitan areas,&#8221; Mamabolo said. Voters cited high rates of unemployment and crime, frequent power blackouts and corruption in ANC ranks as reasons why they would vote for opposition parties.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I grew up loving the ANC because of how they fought for the freedom we have today. That is why I voted for them all these years,&#8221; said business owner Skhumbuzo Mnyandu, 48, who came out to vote in KwaMashu, a township close to Durban. But this time Mnyandu said he was voting for uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), a new party backed by former president Jacob Zuma. Pensioner Charles Louw, 62, said he would remain loyal to the ANC as he distrusted the promises made by opposition parties to create jobs, end power cuts or crack down on crime.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ANC have been trying to do it, they are there, they have got experience, they know how to accommodate everything. But the new parties, where will they start?&#8221; he said after voting in Alexandra, a sprawling township east of Johannesburg. Then-led by Nelson Mandela, the ANC swept to power in South Africa&#8217;s first multi-racial election in 1994 and has won a majority in national elections held every five years since then, though its share of the vote has gradually declined.<\/p>\n<p>Young voters who did not live through apartheid were particularly disillusioned with the ANC and the country&#8217;s economic prospects. &#8220;There&#8217;s no jobs for the youth. We have degrees, but there&#8217;s no getting jobs,&#8221; said Nosipho Mkhize, a 28-year old &#8211; the median age in South Africa &#8211; explaining why he was voting MK. If the ANC falls short of 50% this time, it will have to make a deal with one or more smaller parties to govern &#8211; uncharted and potentially choppy waters for a young democracy that has so far been dominated by a single party. Voters are electing provincial assemblies in each of the country&#8217;s nine provinces, and a new national parliament which will then choose the next president.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/south-africans-vote-most-competitive-election-since-end-apartheid-2024-05-28\/\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/south-africans-vote-most-competitive-election-since-end-apartheid-2024-05-28\/\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/south-africans-vote-in-most-competitive-election-since-apartheid-ended\/\">South Africans vote in most competitive election since apartheid ended<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1641,1832,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-130922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-election","tag-south-africa","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}