QUNU (South Africa), May 23 — In Nelson Mandela’s hometown of Qunu there has been no running water since 2016, jobs are scarce and crime is on the rise as unemployed young men...
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“I will vote for the ANC until I die,” 65-year-old Mzwandile Mthembu told Reuters. He has no power in his concrete shack, but gets a pensioners’ grant and is grateful for his freedom. “It’s not enough,” he said. “But we had nothing before.” More recent surveys show it regaining some ground. “The ANC is creeping up,” Susan Booysen, research director at the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection, said.
The region was once among the small territories the apartheid government allocated to Black people, until the ANC helped usher in multi-racial democracy in 1994. The ANC says it needs more time to finish the job, though it acknowledges mistakes during its three decades in power.
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