Johanna Ditsela lives within sight of the gleaming skyscrapers of South Africa&#...
Johanna Ditsela walks between shacks next to her home in Alexandra township in Johannesburg, South Africa, April 11, 2019. REUTERS/Sumaya HishamJOHANNESBURG - Johanna Ditsela lives within sight of the gleaming skyscrapers of South Africa’s main financial district, but has existed in squalor for 30 years.
Ditsela’s Johannesburg township, Alexandra, has seen protests against overcrowding and poor public services in the run-up to a general election on May 8. Ditsela, a lifelong ANC supporter, wasn’t listening. She stayed at home rather than hear Ramaphosa, and like other residents of Alexandra, says she might not vote next month.
A model of how Alexandra was meant to look once the project was completed - with parks interspersed between neat rows of houses - now gathers dust in a children’s library on 3rd Avenue, its lights no longer working. “We know that Ramaphosa has come to calm us down before the election,” said Kgomotso Mosepidi, a 47-year-old technology specialist who waited to see Ramaphosa on Thursday - but found he had been whisked away by aides before she could get close.
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