Makhanda – A quarter of a century after the end of the apartheid in South Africa, large swathes of population still aren’t free given abject poverty and high unemployment and the scourge of corruption affecting the country, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Saturday.
Speaking at a ceremony in Makhanda, formerly Grahamstown, Ramaphosa said that South Africans were “gathered here to celebrate the day we won our freedom.”
The first democratic elections were held in South Africa on April 27, 1994.
“We remember the moment we placed a cross on a ballot paper for the first time in our lives,” the president said, paying homage to Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid campaigner who was elected South Africa’s first black president in 1994.
Nevertheless, “we cannot be a nation of free people when so many still live in poverty,” Ramaphosa said.
“We cannot be a nation of free people when so many live
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