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While the streets may be plastered with campaign posters of smiling politicians promising “A Job in Every Home” or to “Rescue South Africa,” many things have not improved. To many young South Africans, the ANC party is linked to today’s problems. Two decades of economic stagnation mean half of its young people are unemployed, the vast majority of them Black.
Yet South Africa is still a vibrant democracy, with a free and fearless press and an independent judiciary. Human rights, including LGBTQ rights, are—unlike in many countries on the continent—enshrined in the constitution. “There are many problems in South Africa, but nobody can deny the changes that have happened since 1994, and that was because of the ANC,” said 42-year-old Eric Phoolo, another supporter of the ruling party. “These other parties don’t have a track record of bringing change to the country.”
South Africans vote for parties and not directly for their president in national elections. Parties then get seats in Parliament according to their share of the vote and the lawmakers elect the president, which is why the ANC losing its majority would be so critical to the hope of the 71-year-old current president, Cyril Ramaphosa, of being reelected for a second and final five-year term.
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