Voting starts countrywide

Voting starts countrywide

Polls opened across South Africa on Wednesday for the fifth democratic elections, with the ANC assured of victory but in danger of seeing its 66 percent majority shrink.

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Voting began at 7am at the country's 22,264 polling stations and will end at 9pm.
 
Officials at voting stations visited by Sapa reporters said logistics were in place for a smooth poll.
 
Some 25 million registered voters are electing 400 members of Parliament as well as new legislatures for the country's nine provinces, with seats ranging from 80 in KwaZulu-Natal to just 30 in the Free State.
 
Indications were that the day also began quietly in hotly-contested provinces, such as Gauteng and the Northern Cape. 
 
-Sapa

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