Picture: David Ritchie/African News Agency (ANA) A core factor that underpinned our resistance against racism, sexism and economic exploitation was the need for the recognition of self-worth. As people who had experienced varying degrees of alienation, relegated to being instruments of servitude at best, ranked below animals at worst, we fought to assert our right to be treated with respect and with dignity. That is why the voter turnout on April 27, 1994, the date of South Africa’s first democratic election, was so high that the number of voting days had to be extended.
Freedom Day was more than […]
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