South Africans Vote En Masse

Windhoek — Yesterday 25.39 million people in South Africa went to the polls in the first national election since the death of the country's first democratically elected president Nelson Mandela.

Yesterday's vote was also the first time the country's 'born frees' cast their votes.

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