A child holds a poster of Democratic Alliance candidate Helen Zille as she speaks during a rally in Rocklands, on the outskirts of the South African city of Cape Town. South Africans go to the polls Wednesday, as thousands are still considered to live under the poverty line 20 years after the first democratic elections. (Schalk Van Zuydam / AP). More pics after cut..
South African opposition leader Helen Zille, center, shouts during a rally in Rocklands, on the outskirts of the city of Cape Town. (Schalk Van Zuydam / AP)
African National Congress supporters celebrate during a pre-election rally in Bekkersdal, near Johannesburg. Two decades after South Africa’s first democratic elections ended apartheid and swept Nelson Mandela to power, the African National Congress, which has governed the country since then, faces perhaps its toughest test yet in the parliamentary elections set for Wednesday. (Kim Ludbrook / European Pressphoto Agency)
An election official transforms a classroom into a voting station on the eve of the general election in Embo. (Rogan Ward / Reuters)
Election officials work in a classroom that has been transformed into a voting station on the eve of the general election in Embo. (Rogan Ward / Reuters)
A man speaking on his cellphone walks past a placard from Daily Sun newspaper urging people to vote in the Soweto township of Johannesburg. South Africa goes to the polls Wednesday in elections that are likely to see the ruling African National Congress party return to power with a smaller majority than usual, as voters have become disaffected by corruption in government and economic inequality. (Ben Curtis / AP)
A young woman walks around a line of ballot booths to cast her vote on the second day of special voting at a school in Crossroads township in Cape Town, the day before the general election takes place. The special votes allow the elderly, sick, physically impaired and other people who would find it difficult to vote Wednesday to cast their ballots. (Rodger Bosch / AFP/Getty Images)
An woman wearing traditional Xhosa beadwork and a dress bearing the image of former South African president Nelson Mandela votes on the second day of special voting at a voting station in a school in Crossroads township in Cape Town. (Rodger Bosch / AFP/Getty Images)
An electoral official stamps a voter’s identity book during a special vote in Khayelitsha, ahead of Wednesday’s general election. (Jennifer Bruce / AFP/Getty Images)
A wire sculpture of Nelson Mandela, the first democratic president of South Africa, hangs beside campaign posters near Coffee Bay, in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, which is one of the poorest and most crime-affected areas in the country. (Kevin Sutherland / European Pressphoto Agency)
Children look outside their classroom with a voting station board as their school is used as a voting station for disabled people to vote in Cape Town’s Nyanga township. (Schalk Van Zuydam / AP)
Election officials and ballot boxes await voters after they opened early for disabled people to vote in Nyanga township in Cape Town. (Schalk Van Zuydam / AP)
Election workers hand over ballot papers to elderly and disabled South African voters to cast their ballots during early voting for special groups at the Nazareth House old-age home in Johannesburg. (Ben Curtis / AP)
Tozama Ntshayi looks at a South African ballot paper during a home visit for special voters in Khayelitsha. (Jennifer Bruce / AFP/Getty Images)
Men walk past ANC posters in Atteridgeville, in western Pretoria. (Themba Hadebe / AP)
Supporters of the ruling African National Congress sing and dance while holding a framed poster of late anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela during the final ANC election campaign rally at Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg. ANC officials swept aside a weak economy, fierce criticism of its president and questions about the party’s future at a massive Soweto rally, in a preelection show of force. (Gianluigi Guercia / AFP/Getty Images)
Supporters of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress sing and dance during the party’s final election campaign rally at Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg. (Gianluigi Guercia / AFP/Getty Images)
Hundreds of supporters of South Africa’s main opposition party, Democratic Alliance, gather for a rally at the Walter Sisulu Square in Kliptown, Soweto. The Democratic Alliance claimed Sunday that activists of the ruling ANC stoned two buses filled with DA supporters who were heading to Soweto for the election campaign concert. One of the buses was stoned near the FNB stadium, venue of the 2010 World Cup final, where the ruling African National Congress party was holding its final campaign rally Sunday. (Mujahid Safodien / AFP/Getty Images)
Julius Malema, leader of the South African Economic Freedom Fighters party, addresses his supporters in Atteridgeville, Pretoria, during his party’s final pre-election rally. (European Pressphoto Agency)
Supporters of the Economic Freedom Party cheer during the party’s final election rally in Pretoria. (Skyler Reid / Reuters)
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