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South Africa celebrated Freedom Day this week and many questioned what this means to a country with so many challenges, while the Western Cape got a new...
On Wednesday, the country marked 28 years since all South Africans were allowed to the vote.
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President Cyril Ramaphosa was in Middleburg, Mpumalanga, leading government's efforts marking 28 years of freedom in the country.
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On this day 28 years ago, all South Africans voted in the country's first democratic election, which paved the way for a new democratic government.
Steenhuisen is visiting the Gqanqu Village - one of the poorest communities in the Eastern Cape.
Ramaphosa delivered the Freedom Day keynote address in Mpumalanga on Wednesday.
President Cyril Ramaphosa is in Middelburg for the official Freedom Day commemoration, where he is delivering the keynote address.
On Freedom Day, Political Science Prof Amanda Gouws, Distinguished Professor at Stellenbosch University speaks to John Maytham.
The miracle moment of 1994 was not in itself a complete removal of the impediments of freedom, but rather a bold statement of what is possible beyond the political transition.
As South Africa commemorates 28 years since the country's first democratic elections, many citizens question whether it is a day to celebrate as many do not feel free.
Freedom Day, as it is popularly known, commemorates the first democratic elections in the country.
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Deputy Minister in the Presidency Thembi Siweya writes that as government learns from its mistakes, it's been looking at how best to ensure that the constitutional requirements of a representative and participatory democracy are implemented better and more firmly.
Speaking at the Freedom Day celebrations in Botshabelo in the Free State on Tuesday, the president spoke against the many challenges facing citizens as a result of problems in the local government sphere.
The union said almost 30 years into democracy, the majority remains trapped in poverty, unemployment and crippling inequality.
Speaking at the party’s Freedom Day rally in Atteridgeville, in Tshwane, on Tuesday he asked those in attendance how they can describe themselves as free without economic power.