‘We are always overlooked’: Youth of Loyiso Nkohla settlement say there’s no use in them voting

CAPE TOWN - Some young people from Loyiso Nkohla informal settlement in Stock Road say they've had enough of the government's empty promises, and won't be taking part in the upcoming general elections.

South Africans will head to the polls on 29 May in what has been described as the most highly contested elections in the country's 30 years of democracy.visited the new settlement named after slain community activist and politician, Loyiso Nkohla, to hear some of the challenges facing the youth there.

Some showed clear disdain for the electoral process, with one young man saying he was not bothered about making his X on the 29th. Another young man, known as Ayabonga, said all the promises made to them when they moved had not been fulfilled.

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