Polls indicate that voters are unlikely to abandon the African National Congress
The party has a lot to do after the spectacular failure of its much-vaunted strategy to govern
On a vast rubbish-strewn field in a mining area east of Johannesburg, hundreds of destitute Africans who have fled their makeshift homes in nearby slums shiver in the morning cold. The land, covered in white tents donated by aid groups, resembles the all-too-familiar refugee camps seen across this violence-hit continent.