JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Phakisho Mojaplo, 20, belongs to a new generation of South Africans who never experienced firsthand the harsh system of white minority rule that ended in 1994, and will vote in national elections for the first time on Wednesday. She is deeply dissatisfied with what she describes as a growing culture of elitism and corruption in her country despite its new freedoms and other advances during her lifetime.

Chief among Mojaplo’s grievances is her sense that the ruling African National Congress, which is expected to win re-election with a possibly reduced majority, has betrayed the commitments to clean governance and basic services for all citizens that it championed when it took power in South Africa’s first all-race elections two decades ago. But the anti-establishment sentiment of many young South Africans, grouped under the post-apartheid label of “born frees,” is unlikely to cut deeply into ruling party support at the polls because a large number have not registered to vote.