I'm John Bachelor. This is CBS Island the world.

Ronan Wordsworth of Geopolitical futures is here, helping me understand West Africa, but we move now to South Africa.

A state that Ronan knows very well, and there's an election imminent.

The election, support for South Africa.

This is Reuters governing African National Congress, has settled around

42% in the days leading up to the election, according to an opinion poll. Ronan, just a moment here about what the issues are and what to watch for when we get the results over these next days.

Thank you.

Yeah, so South Africa obviously is as ANC has governed South Africa since independence, it was a party of Nelson Mandela.

And I mean, even ex-President Jacob Zuma once said that the ANC will rule South Africa until Jesus returns.

That's how confident they were of their long-standing position.

Now if we see the deterioration of the situation in South Africa, their economy has gone

backwards for over a decade now.

There's huge allegations of mismanagement and corruption through the ANC party and

the apparatus that's built up around them, as well as the persistent power

problem, so S-COM, the state generator, used to provide a lot of Southern

Africa with excess electricity and now they can't even provide enough

electricity to fuel their own country. So these issues have all culminated

basically in the fact that the ANC's support has significantly dropped.

And we also look at unemployment rates amongst the youth that are extremely high.

So the major parties, the major players aside from the ANC we have the the EFF which is the party of

Julius Malema the third largest party and they are appealing to the youth, the unemployed

youth the disenfranchised and really spouting some very radical ideas similar to potentially

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