SA Elections: voters express mixed reactions to early counts

South Africans in Cape Town gave mixed reactions on Thursday to early election results which show the long-ruling African National Congress below 50% in the vote.

Very early counts put the ANC at just over 42%. With only just over 16% of votes counted and declared, it was only a partial picture after Wednesday’s election.

If the ANC is denied a majority, it would be the first time since they swept to power under Nelson Mandela at the end of apartheid in 1994.

Mixed reactions

“Our political system as it is, it’s not okay, in a sense that it does not serve its…