This news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes. To go to the polls. Halt its slide in court will meet. With conditions. Is not inability. Only female paralympic athlete. To pass and with a disability the cat. Welcome to the program. In the president ial election which is the most closely contested
since the end of the apartheid era the see the African National congress the. Country since one thousand nine hundred ninety four but its fortunes. Since then Nelson Mandela won nearly sixty three percent of the vote in that fast free election in one thousand to four support pete. And becky just. As you can see the table behind me now its steadily. The question whether. The downward trend. With one who takes stock of the last twenty five years. Now since. Agency election. Symbolic of the Party Support base in this region. Wizzy causa is an a. N. C. Supporter were outside the clinic its a week away she voted in the One Thousand Nine Hundred Four election she still has vivid memories of. The excitement was such that You Didnt Care where they belong but you just wanted to be seen to be there there were cameras around all wanted to be seen in the cameras so i tried to make a mark to say that we are doing it in the five years that will follow it would be the a. N. C. Led by Nelson Mandela ruling a democratic south africa. Outside his hold in so which now it to receive traction. Was a recalls how the lives of black south africans changing. Them and then let you are trying to project a whole lot of excitement for me as an individual it and probably assisted me in changing professions i had been and mess and elected to in this ng for quite a long time and opportunities that are out there gave me
a moment to appear to move from the Public Sector to join the corporate industry. The successes would continue after mandela the first election post his presidency the a. N. C. Had its strongest showing at the polls yet a strong black middle class was emerging that means many black south africans like causa were able to move from townships next whistle to suburbs in Two Thousand And Four which was during. The economy was there now we have these they grow people who are only says in companies through their employment by the Two Thousand And Nine election with jacob zuma at the hound cracks had emerged. Theyve been a breakaway from The Agency Corruption was rife and the whole the Liberation Movement once inspired was fading for the first time the party lost support at the polls those losses would extend in the twenty fourteen election but cause continued to
vote for the a. N. C. I didnt support him i was definitely behind him but no cords. Pretty. Good this week. And President Putin is a member its difficult to follow. We remain loyal to the right we are going to point out the wrong. Thing to set up with the a. N. C. Having lost support in the last two consecutive elections watches will be looking to this poll to see if the party will continue its declines or if its promise of a restored image. Vote is good or bad. Joining me now from Johannesburg South africa is my colleague christine. Christine. Sure now from the report was that we may. See how widespread is
that in the party. Maybe the whole point of getting into office before jacobs to him even ended was to really reignite voters all supporters of the party who had now thought twice and thought about defecting and not voting for the party the whole idea was to send the message that the party is changing course that its back on the right direction and that new leadership is coming in refreshing leadership that up also has a very good record and the idea was that it would reignite supporters who were no longer interested in supporting the n. C. And in fact in ways hes case it appears to have worked you told me offline that had im opposed to not secure the presidency she would not have voted for the a. N. C. Today so it seems to have worked for a lot of people in fact theres a term that was going around in south africa phoria to basically try and capture what was his presidency did but of course only the poll results come when stays election would really be telling as to how much the drama for you has
a real face in terms of translating into support bring back into this party like you rightly said the Party Supports the President Zuma and. The monks and then things around how. Is he a lot of south africans are pinning their hopes on the polls and i say a lot of south africans because the majority of this country in the possibly actions as weve seen our supporters these people say that im of course having a clean record hes a businessman he knows about Investment Job Creation in fact hes one of the wealthiest people in south africa so they think that hes Business Acumen the connections hes made the fact that hes a leader that has been embraced by the International Community having a clean record so christine the second Largest Opposition Party that. Is going in support mainly because he wants to return to block without compensating whites gun
owners know what impact if you have on the elections what is the position on the. One could argue its been one of the trump cons of this election greatly and its one of the reasons why the if it has the message that it has resonated with so many young people taking away the young pushes from the African National congress. In its Two Thousand And SeventeenPolicy Conference they and see adopted the same one you see which is taking that land without compensating people that its been slow to the next attack so the feeling is that while the a. N. C. Since the mrs if thats what they do thats not what its really going to do they insist in dumping twenty five years now the rate at which its taking its giving back the land to black south africans is very slow so even though its part of the eightys policy that is a living its a skeptical about the a. N. C. But that has been a big factor especially the young people who are finding themselves without work
yet. Now briefly before you see this election to be the last easy win for the a. N. C. So fast forward what is at stake if more support and this one. If you were talking about a party thats enjoyed a Landslide Victories at the elections in the last five ten of the last year the fact that it happened in this country and theyve been comfortable wins with the African National congress the stakes are high what they see wants to do is maintain its two thirds majority that is sixty percent of the electorate and that is it raised at the moment theyre just about sixty one percent as we speak and so crucial for the agency is to maintain that majority in parliament and that is in jeopardy and this is the most part we contested election for the agency. And enjoy your time there. Is obscene young is the only female paralympic athlete she was the countrys flag bearer at the london twenty twelve games and
next goal is to represent the gambia games in tokyo twenty twenty she does weightlifting takes on basketball all of these without any Financial Support within the team she is the only woman the fact that is often from up on by this aside restrictions of the Mud To Muslim Gun but the single mom of two keeps pushing the boundaries shes sure that disabled people can. He said began because only female Power Lympics athletes she was born with an impairment and both her legs four times a week she plays basketball the training a chance to bond with other disabled people who often feel ostracized from society Many Gambians feel that men and women should not train together but he said to sees it differently. That the basketball players hope that one day they will all be able to compete at the
powerline pick games together at the moment there arent enough funds to send the whole team abroad to gambia provides no money for power and pick our fleet meaning they rely on sponsors to fund their travels and training. He said too often encounters obstacles on her way home. She shares a house with a dozen other Family Members isa two is a single mother of two she married at eighteen and got divorced eight years ago her family continues to support her since discrimination against disabled people is right and he said to struggles to find work. For disabled people here. Outside and get across even if you have your application. At the moment that you do look for. And give your money and. Stand to listen to your explanation or whatever you want to do. So every morning at six am its a two cents on the roadside and asks passers by from money she does this for three hours every day making around three euros gambia does not provide welfare for people like the sets. Basketball isnt the only discipline to wants to compete and shes also a weight lifter. She can train here for free she comes several times a. Day this is in london this is my fourth. Athletics but disappeared. I came out fifth yeah i was more happy dad did because its the first time but of his then to. Games because the one who used to sponsor me did not. Have the money to be made thats why i could not make it to dig in. There is still an uphill struggle to qualify for the Paralympic Games in tokyo he said needs to train hard and find a sponsor but despite the many obstacles she faces she Still Believes she can make it. You can catch all our stories on our website on Facebook Page we leave you now with images of the recent Archaeological Find in egypt dating back for the how thousand years