Survey says jobs, outage, fraud top concerns for South African voters

Afrobarometer, the Pan-African research network, has just published its latest pre-election survey of South African voters. Jan Hofmeyr, Head of Research and Policy at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, the Southern African core partner of Afrobarometer, tells VOA’s James Butty, voters want the next government to address unemployment, the unreliable electricity supply, and corruption. This, as Special voting for South Africa’s national and provincial elections began Monday. The South African Mail & Guardian newspaper quotes the country’s electoral commission as saying the process got off to a good start.