More South African voters are expected to cross racial lines in this week’s national elections
Just a few days before the South African national election is expected to take place, polls show growing white support for the African National Congress and growing black support for the white party, the Democratic Alliance. By Max Bearak Max Bearak Africa bureau chief based in Nairobi Email Bio Follow May 6 at 12:31 PM JOHANNESBURG — Voting, like life itself in South Africa, has long been divided along racial lines.
Polls show that the African National Congress is expected to remain in power after Wednesday’s national elections. A quarter-century has passed since South Africa ended white-minority rule with its all-encompassing system of segregation and monopoly on force. But apartheid has survived both geographically and economically: South Africa is one of the world’s most unequal societies.
Nkele Huma, 71, sits outside her home in Dobsonville, Soweto. “I used to vote for the ANC because they took us out of apartheid,” she said. “But now they are stealing. We voted for them and now they abandoned us.” Nkele Huma, 71, lives down the street from the stadium where the DA rallied. She lives alone and uses a walker to stand. Recent rolling blackouts meted out by the mismanaged state-owned power company Eskom have left her sitting helplessly in the dark for long stretches.
The tide of mistrust in the ANC has propelled the DA to power in some cities, including Johannesburg, the country’s largest city, and Pretoria, the capital. Ramaphosa’s popularity in the white community in particular has opened up the possibility for the ANC to win back lost ground in South Africa’s wealthier cities. Ramaphosa was a central figure in the ANC’s anti-apartheid struggle but has since become one of the country’s wealthiest men, working closely with powerful white business owners in a way that other ANC leaders have shunned.
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