Only five days of campaigning before the vote for the Senegalese presidential election.
Given the exceptional deadlines for this election, the 19 candidates must redouble their efforts to make themselves known for certain objectives;
attract voters.
On March 17, 1992, a referendum ended apartheid in South Africa.
A system of racial segregation which was based on 3 pillars, the classification of the population, the separation of dwellings and the law on land.
In 1994, the first black president was elected by popular vote, Nelson Mandela, a leader and global icon.
30 years later, his political party, the ANC, alone led a bloodless country, the 2nd largest economy on the African continent but where 50% of the population lives below the poverty line... an essentially black population.
What future for the rainbow nation?
Decryption with Marianne Séverin, South Africa expert at LAM and Sciences Po Bordeaux
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