GALLERY: South Africans go to the polls


SOUTH Africans go to the polls on Wednesday to vote in the country’s fifth national democratic election.

According to the Electoral Commission of South Africa, 25.3-million of about 31-million South Africans who are eligible to vote had registered to vote.

The 2014 election, which takes place against a backdrop of service-delivery protests across the country and protracted labour strife, is possibly South Africa’s most highly contested since the first democratic election on April 27, 1994.