This polarizing, pothole-snorkeling gran is leading the race for Johannesburg mayor

A social-media-savvy septuagenarian is leading the race for mayor of South Africa’s largest city, speaking to a broader decline in loyalty toward the long-ruling African National Congress.

海倫·齊勒憑借嘲諷城市基礎設施崩潰的社交媒體視頻成為約翰內斯堡市長選舉的領跑者，反映出執政黨非國大支持率下滑而反對黨尚未贏得多數黑人選民信任的格局。她的民主聯盟預計需聯合執政，種族與階層裂痕仍是其全國化道路上的主要障礙。