Anger boils over as South Africa goes to the polls

Bekkersdal (South Africa), May 7 Polls opened in South Africa’s fifth all-race elections today, with up to 25 million citizens — including a “born free” generation electing a government for the first time — expected to cast their ballots.

Twenty years after South Africans of all colours wowed the world by voting to end centuries of racist rule, they will turn out to 22,263 polling centres to elect lawmakers and, in turn, a democratic president.