It's 30 years since apartheid ended. South Africa's celebrations and remembrances of Nelson Mandela are set against discontent with the governing ANC.
South Africans celebrated their “Freedom Day” on Saturday, commemorating their country's pivotal first democratic election on April 27, 1994, that announced the official end of the racial segregation and oppression of apartheid. South Africa marked the 30th anniversary with 21-gun salutes and remembrances of that momentous vote, when millions of Black South Africans decided their own futures for the first time, a fundamental right they had been denied by a racist white minority government.
” The ANC's election victory ensured that apartheid was finally dismantled and a new Constitution was drawn up and became South Africa's highest law, guaranteeing equality for everyone no matter their race, religion or sexuality. Apartheid, which began in 1948 and lasted for nearly half a century, had oppressed Black and other nonwhite people through a series of race-based laws.
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