South Africa’s splintering vote sets up multi-party battle for cities

By Bate Felix and Nellie Peyton JOHANNESBURG, Nov 2 (Reuters) – The first time Mpho Moroka voted, in 2008, she backed the African National Congress. Almost two decades on, the unemployed 38-year-old from Soweto has switched sides to the rival Democratic Alliance ahead of local elections. “I’m from the township. I saw the poverty, I saw the struggles and I saw that there is no change,” she told…

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