Why South Africans lost faith in the ANC

A red dawn had just broken when Stephanie Sathege joined the queue to vote at her local polling station in the Johannesburg township of Alexander on Wednesday. The voting booths hadn’t yet opened, but she and dozens of other people were enthusiastic enough to be there ahead of time. A 62-old black South African, this was the seventh time she had been allowed to vote in a general election, having lived under democracy only half her life. 
 
Today, just as she did 30 years ago, Stephanie is contributing to an historic outcome. But this election day would be different to all the previous ones. 
 
‘Since 1994, I have been voting for the ANC but even now, I am still living in a shack.’ she says. ‘We don’t have water, we don’t have power, we don’t have toilets, we don’t have a house, we don’t have land.’ Like most of the people in the queue, she endures life in a tinned-roof squatter shanty where rats scurry around and sewage water trickles past the portaloos.
 
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