As in numerous other polling stations across South Africa, voting was delayed at a Soweto school located a short walk from where anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela used to live.
People have been patient but it’s clear the political landscape for Mandela’s party, the governing African National Congress (ANC), is changing.
“We are excited that more parties have come on board,” says 50-year-old Thabiso Motea. “We don’t want just one party ruling.”
Linda Malinda, 68, says casting her vote would make a change, and that she wants a lot of that.
“Most of our children they’ve gone into drugs because of frustration - they can’t get jobs, they can’t go to school, the money’s not there.
She says she is still planning to vote for the ANC, because “changing my vote will make things worse”.
But 18-year-old Ntokoto Ngobeni was waiting to “vote out some people” and cast his first-ever ballot for the radical Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party.
Whatever the outcome of this election, it feels like it marks the end of an era.
