South Africans were voting Wednesday in a general election that could challenge the ruling African National Congress, which has held power since the fall of apartheid in the 1990s.
People line up to vote May 8 in Claremont, a middle-class suburb of Cape Town, during South Africa's national and provincial elections.
Twenty-five years ago, millions of South Africans stood in line for hours to exercise their right to vote for the first time. Now many here believe the government has not done enough to dislodge the legacy of the system of racial segregation and subjugation imposed on black South Africans by a white-minority government for most of the 20th century.
Longtime supporter Herbert Sithole, standing outside the Soweto polling station waiting to see the president cast his ballot, thinks he is up to the task. The two largest, the Democratic Alliance and the Economic Freedom Fighters, have also been campaigning on promises to create more jobs and bring an end to corruption.
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