South Africa will mark 30 years of freedom amid inequality, poverty and a tense election ahead

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 voted for the first time. It was at this school on April 27, 1994 that Kunene joined millions of South Africans to brave long queues and take part in the country's first democratic elections. #southafrica #2024elections #news
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[@Parrotgirl-Tattoo]

Im sure things are so much better now... 😌

[@mogotsimpshane4713]

If the economy tripled from what it was in 1994, then it means also tax revenues increased. What happened to the money collected from citizens. The biggest mistake for ANC in 1994 was that when they got power they prioritised looting of state funds instead of focusing on building dams, power stations, proper houses and sanitation.
Mismanagement and corruption of state resources are to blame for the current state of affairs and not Apartheid

[@agro-valleyfarm7217]

What freedom??? Freedom for millions of people to be still living under slum-like conditions presided over by a billionaire President. Over that same period Singapore had move from a country where the vast majority of the people lived under poor housing condtions to where over 90 percent of the population had decent housing. South Afrika is still under ECONOMIC APARTHEID- that's what the sale-out nelson mandela and the opportunists in the ANC agreed to, to get political power. COMPARE resource-rich South Afrika to Singapore which has no natural resources over the same time period and the disparity in accomplishments are as different like night and day.-this only goes to show that PROGRESS will not take place under INEPT CORRUPT leadership and that is what the ANC HAS BEEN PLAGUED WITH SINCE IT TOOK OVER FROM THE WHITE COLONIALISTS IN 1994 who still calling the shots behind the scene. South Afrika has been held back by a CORRUPT ANC which has resulted in millions of black SOUTH AFRIKANS to be still living under SLUM-LIKE conditions while the country has a billionaire President. The MAIN reason why the ANC has failed to significantly improve the STANDARD OF LIVING of black south afrikans is because it has been serving the role of Boules in SA since 1994 and it will continue to do so because it lacks AUTHENTIC leadership. Too much excuse for these opportunist corrupt inept mis-leaders in Afrika.

[@jimhughes1070]

Corruption?... Still?... Who could have guessed? 🧐🤣🤣

[@yonasghebre7940]

South Africa worry about gaza war no for their people

[@irenafarm]

ISR next. It wasn’t an accident that ZA was the one who brought the international court case against them.
I hope, once the current administration is gone, that ISR looks at what ZA has done to recover from institutionalized injustice and corruption, and embraces institutional righteousness.

[@_rob_.]

@0:35
How much of my taxes went toward making her "so,so happy"???

[@user-sn3ch4mt4i]

Nelson Mandela was such a hugely popular political figurehead.
The South Africa he left behind cannot be the South Africa he used to dream of from his tiny Robben Island prison cell.

[@agro-valleyfarm7217]

South Afrika is still under ECONOMIC APARTHEID- that's what the sale-out nelson mandela and the opportunists in the ANC agreed to, to get political power. The MAIN reason why the ANC has failed to significantly improve the STANDARD OF LIVING of black south afrikans is because it has been serving the role of Boules in SA since 1994 and it will continue to do so because it lacks AUTHENTIC leadership. Too much excuse for these opportunist corrupt inept mis-leaders in Afrika.

[@Sprinklebesties]

America moving backward

[@mapitsorangaka1030]

They waited, each and everyone for their turn patiently ❤

[@paulqruel9290]

S&!+ Whole