27 Years into our democracy: A veteran journalist's take
Image: The zig zag path represents the long winding queues of voters who turned up to vote in our first free elections in 1994. It was taken from the top of the Donkin lighthouse. At the top of the zigzag path is this sculpture by Anthony Harris called voters line, showing Nelson Mandela leading a line of voters/Suzi-k/Wikimedia Creative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 South Africa’s 27 years of a constitutional democracy have been a long, tortuous, and winding journey, like the long queues that the world witnessed on 27 April 1994. Millions of voters, of all races, from all walks of life, braved the...