- Title: Johannesburg residents hope for change ahead of general elections
- Date: 28th May 2024
- Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (MAY 28, 2024) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF HUNDREDS OF UCLA STRIKING ACADEMIC WORKERS AND STUDENTS MARCHING THROUGH CAMPUS CHANTING SLOGANS AND CARRYING PROTEST SIGNS (SOUNDBITE) (English) ANNY VILORIA WINNETT, 29-YEAR-OLD PHD STUDENT AND RESEARCHER AT UCLA, SAYING: "Yeah. It's important for all of us workers to come together and use the too
- Embargoed: 11th June 2024 13:17
- Keywords: Elections Government Polling South Africa Voting Vox pops politics
- Location: JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
- City: JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
- Country: South Africa
- Topics: Africa,Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
- Reuters ID: LVA002611428052024RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:PART AUDIO QUALITY AS INCOMING
On Wednesday (May 29), South Africans will vote in national and provincial elections, with polls suggesting the governing African National Congress could lose its parliamentary majority for the first time since the end of apartheid in 1994.
This outcome would force the ANC into a coalition to maintain governing power. In its early years in government, it began reversing these inequities - bringing electricity, water and half-decent housing to millions.
But corruption and incompetence have eroded some of those gains. State power provider Eskom's creaking coal-fired power stations haven't kept up with demand, causing frequent blackouts, while roads, sewage treatment plants and schools rot from the inside. A third of South Africans are jobless.
Results are expected to start trickling in late on Wednesday.
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