South Africa: Are Students The Key To Real Change?

As South Africa prepares for municipal elections on August 3, a series of violent protests in some of its poorest townships have laid bare a growing dissatisfaction with the county's political and economic situation, described by some as the worst since the end of apartheid in 1994. The ruling African National Congress party (ANC) has been in power since the demise of white-minority rule. But for many, the party of liberation has not delivered on its promise to lift millions of South Africans out of poverty.