South African elections: Why Nelson Mandela's party could lose its dominance
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🗓️ 29 May 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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But as voters head to the polls, the party is on the verge of losing dominance, after coming under fire over corruption, high levels of crime and economic woes. Even in the birthplace of the late human rights fighter, communities are suffering from poverty, hunger and no running water.
On the Sky News Daily, Mark Austin speaks to Sky’s Africa correspondent Yousra Elbagir about the decline of Mandela’s legacy, the party’s decreasing popularity and what happens if they lose power.
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| 0:30.4 | Hello, you're listening to the Sky News Daily with me, Mark Austin, and today we are talking about an election, not the UK election this time, |
| 0:39.7 | but the one in South Africa that is taking place 30 years after the end of apartheid. |
| 0:48.0 | Now, South Africa is a very special place to me. |
| 0:50.3 | My daughter was born there. |
| 0:52.5 | We lived there 30 years ago and as a young family on the day of the |
| 0:58.6 | first ever election in which black people could vote. They did so with such excitement and optimism |
| 1:05.3 | and hope and we were filming there of course and we watched them queue for hours and hours, |
| 1:12.3 | and the polling stations had to stay open way into the night. |
| 1:16.6 | But they queued and they waited to get their first ever vote in a democratic election in South Africa. |
| 1:25.0 | And afterwards, I interviewed Mandela and his dream, he said, was to create |
| 1:28.7 | this rainbow nation. Both black and white will be able to walk tall without any fear in their hearts, |
| 1:38.6 | assured of their inalienable right to human dignity, a rainbow nation, |
| 1:45.3 | at peace with itself and the world. |
| 1:48.8 | Such a big day for him, |
| 1:50.6 | having been in prison for so long, |
| 1:53.2 | imprisoned by the apartheid regime. |
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