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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Oren Gruenbaum

‘Unlock the door or we’ll kick it down’: why South Africa’s youngest politician is in a hurry for change

A young Asian woman speaks at a lectern while giving a clenched-fist salute
Fasiha Hassan at a rally of the ANC Youth League in 2023. A leader of the FeesMustFall student protests that swept through South Africa’s universities in 2015, she believes young people are central to the ‘renewal’ of the ANC. Photograph: @FasihaHassan

They are called the “born-free” South Africans – too young to remember apartheid and with no instinctive loyalty to the African National Congress. And they could deliver a stinging rebuke to the party that led the liberation struggle, if this generation votes at all in elections on 29 May.

Three decades on from the birth of democracy in the country, the ANC could see its vote share fall below 50% for the first time.

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