ANC set for election landslide

MILLIONS of enthusiastic South Africans queued to vote in their third post-apartheid election yesterday, with the African National Congress expected to return to power in a landslide.

With the ANC likely to win overwhelmingly on the back of its enduring popularity as the party that ended white rule, the only questions seemed to be the size of its victory and whether it could make a clean sweep of all nine provinces.

Officials reported long queues at many of the 17,000 polling stations around the country, an indication of high turnout among the more than 20 million registered voters, who cherish the right to vote in their 10-year-old democracy.