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“I’LL never betray our fallen leaders,” the old man said proudly as he came out of the polling booth in Mpumalanga, one of South Africa’s nine provinces, shortly after dawn on Wednesday April 22nd. “I will always vote for the African National Congress.” And that is the attitude of millions of other South Africans as they take part in the country’s fourth fully democratic elections. For better or worse, the ANC is their home. During the long and dark years of apartheid, it was all they had. They will never leave it.
