South Africa: Election Jamboree Bypasses 'Forgotten Communities'

Cape Town — With days to go before South Africans go to the polls, one Cape Town community have proclaimed themselves "forgotten South Africans" who have been bypassed by the political establishment.

Election posters have been pasted on poles all over Cape Town, but there is no indication that South Africa is going to the polls in parts of Frankdale informal settlement, home to about 1,000 people and scattered around the margins of the Vissershok landfill site north of Cape Town.

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