South Africa, which covers 470,462 square miles of the southern tip of the African continent, is home to more than 43 million people. It is bordered by Namibia in the northwest, Zimbabwe and Botswana in the north, Mozambique in the northeast, Swaziland in the east, and the Indian and Atlantic oceans in the south, southeast, and southwest.

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Our 702 Land and Cape Talk Land contingent of Mzantsizens have weighed in on Freedom Day, with reflections of this day from 1994

Apr 26, 2018 · Analysis – Twenty-four years into South Africa’s ‘miracle’ democracy, it is clear that the historic 1994 election and the constitutional settlements of 1993 and 1996 were mere starting points.

Freedom Day is a public holiday in South Africa celebrated on 27 April. It celebrates freedom and commemorates the first post-apartheid elections held on that day in 1994. The elections were the first non-racial national elections where everyone of voting age of over 18 from any race group, including foreign citizens permanently resident in

Though South Africa achieved independence from Britain on 31 May, 1910, Freedom Day is the official Independence Day of South Africa.

Freedom Day on 27 April is an annual celebration of South Africa’s first non-racial democratic elections of 1994.

27 April commemorates the day in 1994 when the first democratic election was held in South Africa. Today, South Africa celebrates Freedom Day to mark the liberation of our country and its people from a long period of …

Freedom Day: What is it, what does it mean for South Africa, and how are people celebrating?

South Africa held its first free and fair democratic elections from April 26-29, 1994, ending centuries of colonialism and the brutal apartheid regime. Since then, South Africa annually celebrates its National Day, also referred to as Freedom Day,