South Africa this week celebrates 30 years of freedom after a historic 1994 election that saw the end of white minority rule and racial segregation.
FILE - People queue to cast their votes In Soweto, South Africa April 27, 1994, in the country's first all-race elections. In 1994 people braved long queues to cast a vote after years of white minority rule which denied Black South Africans the vote. – As 72-year-old Nonki Kunene walks through the corridors of Thabisang Primary School in Soweto, South Africa, she recalls the joy she and many others felt 30 years ago when they voted for the first time.
“I somehow wish we could go back to that day, because of how excited I was and the things that happened thereafter,” said Kunene, referring tobecoming the country's first Black president and the introduction of a new constitution which afforded all South Africans equal rights, abolishing the racially discriminative system of apartheid.“I cannot forget how we suffered at the hands of whites.
But the township of Alexandra, which lies a few kilometers from Sandton, is a stark reflection of the living conditions of the country's poor Black majority, where sewage from burst pipes flows on the streets and uncollected rubbish piles up on pavements.
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