On the eve of the country’s seventh democratic election, enduring inequality still divides South Africa.
South Africa is set to go to the polls for the most unpredictable election in the country's 30 years of democratic rule, ITV News Global Security Editor Rohit Kachroo reports
She admits to a growing sense of shame as we inch closer towards her tinned-roof squatter shanty, where we will see the place she is forced to call home.The township of Alexandra in South Africa.It has been 30 years since the euphoria of April 27, 1994 - or "Freedom Day" - when democratic South Africa was born.
Support for the ANC has fallen because of so-called "service delivery problems" - widespread cuts to water and electricity supplies, corruption and poverty. For Dr Mamphela Ramphele, the anti-apartheid icon, the ANC is a "criminal enterprise" which has deceived its supporters to enrich themselves, handing lucrative government contracts to friends while doing little to improve the lives of ordinary people.
"A grievous error, a grievous betrayal, has been committed by the current government and its predecessors. So it is time for every South African to stop complaining and exercise the power they have. "
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