South Africans vote in election seen as country’s most important in 30 years

People queue to cast their votes at a polling station in Cape Town, South Africa (Nardus Engelbrecht/AP)

Gerald Imray, Mogomotsi Magome and Farai Mutsaka

South Africans have begun voting at schools, community centres and in large white tents set up in open fields in an election seen as their country’s most important in 30 years.

It could put the young democracy in unknown territory.