South Africa's Freedom Day is a celebration of the end of the apartheid that oppressed Black voters in their own country for years. April 27 marks South Africa’s 30th anniversary of “Freedom Day” when ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — 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 ...

South Africans celebrate their “Freedom Day” every April 27, when they remember their country’s pivotal first democratic election in 1994 that announced the official end of the racial segregation and ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — 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 ...

Artist Michael Tshepo Selekane recalls South Africa’s first democratic election on 27 April 1994, as a child of barely eight. “My parents, they woke up so early, early early, to queue, to cast their ...