South Africans go to the polls – in pictures
The ruling ANC, in power since 1994, is favourite to win the national election despite corruption scandals
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Hundreds of ANC supporters from the Mangosuthu University of Technology march in Durban on the eve of the elections
Photograph: Rajesh Jantilal/AFP/Getty Images
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Economic Freedom Fighters party supporters from the Mangosuthu University of Technology march in Durban before the elections
Photograph: Rajesh Jantilal/AFP/Getty Images
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A local resident hangs a sign in the Juju valley – an informal settlement of EFF voters – on the outskirts of the northern city of Polokwane
Photograph: Guillem Sartorio/AFP/Getty Images
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People wait to vote at a polling station in the Seshego township, on the outskirts of Polokwane
Photograph: Guillem Sartorio/AFP/Getty Images
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People queue in the early morning sun in the mining settlement of Bekkersdal, west of Johannesburg
Photograph: Ben Curtis/AP
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Queueing in Bekkersdal. The election comes 25 years after Nelson Mandela led the ANC to power in the country’s first multiracial vote, which marked the end of apartheid. Support for the ANC has fallen in every election since 2004
Photograph: Ben Curtis/AP
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People arrive early to check their names before voting in Cottanlands, north of Durban
Photograph: Rajesh Jantilal/AFP/Getty Images
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ANC supporters take selfies as they queue in the early-morning cold in Bekkersdal
Photograph: Ben Curtis/AP
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Inkatha Freedom party agents prepare a polling station in farm lands near Eshowe
Photograph: Rogan Ward/Reuters
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People queue at a polling station in the Kwamashu township on the outskirts of Durban
Photograph: Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images
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Residents at a former hostel complex watch voters queueing at a polling station in the Kwamashu township, on the outskirts of Durban
Photograph: Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images
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Supporters of the Economic Freedom Fighters party dance outside a polling station in Masiphumelele, Cape Town
Photograph: Nic Bothma/EPA
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ANC supporters sing and dance in Nkandla
Photograph: Rogan Ward/Reuters
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People wait to cast their votes at a polling station in Cape Town
Photograph: Rodger Bosch/AFP/Getty Images
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A voter gets her thumb marked at a polling station in Cottanlands
Photograph: Rajesh Jantilal/AFP/Getty Images
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87 year-old Ntombizodwa Ntuli casts her vote in while sitting in a car in Mpumalanga
Photograph: Themba Hadebe/AP
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A voter lets her grandson cast the ballot in Soweto, Johannesburg
Photograph: Ben Curtis/AP
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Julius Malema, the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters party, casts his ballot in Polokwane
Photograph: Marius Bosch/Reuters
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President Cyril Ramaphosa casts his vote in Soweto, Johannesburg
Photograph: Ben Curtis/AP
