South Africa's 2024 Election: 30 Years of Democracy and Change

As South Africa approaches its seventh democratic election, the nation remains deeply divided by enduring economic inequalities and a housing crisis that echoes the spatial segregation of apartheid. Activists in Cape Town, squatting in a derelict hospital, highlight the government's failure to provide affordable housing close to city centers, forcing the poor to the periphery. Disillusionment with the ruling ANC, which has failed to reverse apartheid-era inequalities despite building millions of homes, suggests the party may lose its absolute majority for the first time since 1994.