JOHANNESBURG - South Africa aged former President Nelson Mandela will vote at home Monday for this week's local elections, the power of voting announced in a special regime for the infirm.
The iconic hero anti-apartheid 92 years, first Black President of South Africa, is home care after being hospitalized for two days in January for an acute respiratory infection.
"It is one of the persons who will be special casting votes today", said the spokesman for the Independent Electoral Commission Kate Bapela.
The country votes Wednesday in local elections in which service delivery has become a hot topic, with frustration to the African National Congress building to the power of inadequate power, water and housing.
The ANC, which has dominated the South African politics since the end of apartheid in 1994, should, nevertheless, to sweep the elections.
Mandela has not been seen in public since he was released from the hospital, but information published in February said that he was in stable condition.
A special vote of Monday is reserved to the "physically infirm or disabled" and workers who perform essential services such as the police, the commission said.
Mandela was elected the first Black President first all-race vote in 1994 South Africa and served a term before resigning in 1999.
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