South Africa’s president has chosen May 29 as the date for national elections, setting the stage for what could be the closest-fought vote since the country became a democracy three decades ago.
President Cyril Ramaphosa described the poll, in which the governing African National Congress could lose its majority for the first time since the end of apartheid, as a “celebration of our democratic journey and a determination of the future that we all desire”.
“I call on all South Africans to exercise their democratic right to vote and for those who will be campaigning to do so peacefully,” he said on Tuesday as he announced the date.
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