Jesuit urges South Africans to consider vision, values when they vote

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – South Africans go to the polls May 29, in what some analysts believe could go down as the most consequential vote since Nelson Mandela won the country’s first democratic election in 1994.

President Cyril Ramaphosa and the African National Congress, which has dominated South African politics since the fall of apartheid, are struggling to keep their parliamentary majority. Polls suggest the ANC may get less than 50 percent of the vote for the first time in 30 years as it competes against 52 other parties.