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Freedom Day

Episode 134 of the African Dialogue podcast, hosted by Channel Africa, titled "Freedom Day" was published on April 29, 2015 and runs 57 minutes.

April 29, 2015 ·57m · African Dialogue

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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 colonialism and White minority domination . Apartheid 'officially' began in South Africa in 1948, but colonialism and oppression of the African majority had plagued South Africa since 1652. After decades of resistance, a stalemate between the Liberation Movement and the Apartheid government was reached in 1988.The African National Congress , South African Communist Party (SACP) , Pan African Congress (PAC) and other organizations were later unbanned on the 2nd of February 1990, and a non-racial constitution was eventually agreed upon and adopted in 1993. On 27 April 1994, the nation finally cast its vote in the first democratic election in the country. The ANC was then voted into power, and Nelson Mandela inaugurated as the President of South Africa. To help us pick the past success and and future challenges we have, Politicat Analyst, Moeletsi Mbeki and Revereand Thami Mvambo, Secretary-General, of the National Inter-faith Council of South Africa
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