‘They feel abandoned’: Steve Ross , a handyman in Maitland, Cape Town, cast his vote, but says low voter turnout in the election points to apathy. (Photo by David Harrison)
Politicians benefit from ignorant citizens ‘because then they can fool the people’, says community activist
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