On 27 April 1994 all South Africans, irrespective of race and gender, were allowed to vote for the first time in democratic national and provincial elections. (Archive/Netwerk24)
If reconciliation and race relations were our most important victories in the first 30 years of democracy, let’s unite to defeat poverty and unemployment in the next, writes Adriaan Basson.
On Saturday, 27 April, 30 years after South Africa’s first democratic election, I found myself in a butchery in the northern suburbs of Cape Town, queuing for biltong and lamb chops.
I woke up with an immense sense of gratitude for how far we had come as a country since 1994, only to be sobered by a headline on News24 that the Limpopo government had yet again missed a deadline to eradicate pit toilets at schools.
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