South Africa will go to the polls on May 29 to choose a parliament which will in turn pick a president, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced Tuesday.
According to AFP, the announcement came the day before Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana presented his annual budget.
This year’s vote may prove historic, with opinion polls showing Ramaphosa’s ANC party on less than 50 per cent for the first time in South Africa’s three decades of democracy.
South Africa’s upcoming elections have been touted as one of the toughest yet for the ruling party, with recent polls suggesting the ANC may receive less than 50% of the national vote for the first time since the country’s white minority rule ended in 1994.
