Some good, some bad but what we achieved must guide us forward
28 April 2024 - 00:00
When South Africa had its first democratic elections 30 years ago this weekend, it defied doomsayers who feared that apartheid would end not in a fairer, more peaceful dispensation, but in a bloodbath...
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