{"id":8682,"date":"2024-04-18T13:00:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=8682"},"modified":"2024-04-18T13:00:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T10:00:06","slug":"man-named-vote-will-cast-ballot-for-change-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ch.jfdi.cc\/?p=8682","title":{"rendered":"Man named Vote will cast ballot for change in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Mariana Ubisi went into labour in her one-room home in rural South Africa, millions of Black citizens were queuing to vote in the election that would bring Nelson Mandela to power.<br \/>\nIt was April 27, 1994. Swept up in the excitement, Ubisi and her husband named their newborn son Vote.<br \/>\n\u201cI imagine it was because we were hearing the chants saying \u2018vote, vote, vote\u2019 on the radio,\u201d said Ubisi, a traditional healer in Lillydale, a poor village in Mpumalanga province.<br \/>\nAs Mozambican refugees who fled war in their country in the 1960s, Mariana and her husband Ernesto did not have the right to vote in South Africa, but they did have a stake in the end of white minority rule.<br \/>\nErnesto recalled being mistreated by white supervisors when he worked in coal mines during apartheid.<br \/>\n\u201cI have never regretted naming my son Vote,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nThirty years after its first multiracial elections, the mood in South Africa is decidedly less optimistic ahead of a poll on May 29.<br \/>\nThe \u201crainbow nation\u201d envisioned by Mandela is afflicted by poverty, inequality, corruption and crime, and his party, the African National Congress, is likely to lose its majority for the first time since he led it to victory in 1994.<br \/>\nThe Ubisi family does not have running water at home and the streets of Lillydale are unpaved, although it is less than 3 km (1.9 miles) away from luxury game reserves where tourists pay thousands of dollars per night.<br \/>\nJobs are scarce, and many young people get sucked into crime.<br \/>\n\u201cThe majority of youth don\u2019t vote. They are disappointed,\u201d said Vote, who considers himself lucky to have a part-time job as a waiter at a safari lodge and dreams of becoming a field guide.<br \/>\n\u201c(Politicians) tell you they will do x, y, z, but actually they don\u2019t do anything.\u201d<br \/>\nHe still plans to cast his ballot in May, although he declined to say which party he would vote for.<br \/>\n\u201cYou vote for the party that can bring some contribution to the community. That\u2019s what I\u2019m looking for,\u201d said Vote, who unlike his parents is a South African citizen. \u201cWe need the change.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Vote Ubisi (30), who was named because he was born on April 27, 1994, the same day as millions of South Africans voted in the country\u2019s first democratic election that would end Apartheid and bring Nelson Mandela to power, mixes cement to make bricks at his home in Lillydale, South Africa, March 20, 2024. REUTERS\/James Oatway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(Reuters)inequality. voting, poverty, disillusionment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mariana Ubisi named her son Vote after he was born on the day of South Africa&#8217;s first democratic election in 1994 that brought Nelson Mandela to power. 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