(3 May 2014) South Africa's main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), held one of its final campaign rallies on Saturday ahead of national elections next Wednesday.
The DA controls the Western Cape, one of South Africa's nine provinces, and hopes to make a strong run in Gauteng, the most populous province.
At the rally, DA leader Helen Zille criticised the current government for corruption and high unemployment rates.
She said the African National Congress (ANC) had "forgotten about the people who put them into power".
The election this year has symbolic resonance because it comes 20 years after the country's first all-race vote which heralded the end of white-minority rule.
The ANC, which led the movement against apartheid and has dominated politics since the 1994 vote, has sought to woo voters with the narrative of what President Jacob Zuma says is "a good story to tell," citing improvements including the provision of housing, water and electricity to millions of people.
However, government corruption, crime and economic inequality have sapped some of the ANC's popularity, and opposition parties are seeking to capitalise on that discontent to make electoral gains.
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