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REFLECTIONS ON FREEDOM DAY

‘The party of Mandela, Tambo, Sisulu has turned SA into a wasteland of broken promises’

The South African political breakthrough of 1994 was historically significant. Internal conflict in the country loomed large in national, continental, and global affairs.

At a national level, the breakthrough signified an end to the centuries- old struggle against apartheid and British colonialism. The ordinary masses had rendered apartheid and South Africa unworkable.

At a continental level, 1994 represented the fulfilment of a commitment by the African Union to ensure that all Africans would in the fullness of time “control their destiny, conscious of the fact that freedom, equality, justice, and dignity are essential objectives for the achievement of legitimate aspirations”. The political breakthrough enabled the country to join

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