For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. - Nelson Mandela ...

Calls for more jobs for South Africa's black majority and respect for the rights of the LGBTI community have marked Freedom Day celebrations commemorating the 25th anniversary of the end of apartheid.

Yet 18 years on, Freedom Day, no doubt a beacon of hope, light and people-hood across Africa – which has lots to learn from South Africa’s transition – calls for a pause and some reflection.

South Africans celebrate their "Freedom Day" every April 27, when they remember their country's pivotal first democratic election in 1994 that announced the official end of apartheid.

This year, South Africans will celebrate the country’s 27th Freedom Day on Wednesday, 27 April. The day was first celebrated in 1995. It’s about more than just having a day off from work mid-week.

Annually, on 27 April, South Africa commemorates Freedom Day; a day in honour of the first democratic elections held in 1994. While many will remember the long, snaking lines, the excitement and ...

Foster emphasizes the differences between an older generation of black elites steeped in the discipline of the struggle against apartheid and a younger generation that views South Africa in more ...

Mourning freedom in the shadow of democracy. In a sharp counterpoint to South Africa's official Freedom Day celebrated on April 27, commemorating the first democratic elections in 1994, AbM has ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – When Nkululeko Simelane was born on April 27, 1994, her parents did not have to think twice about her name. Her birth coincided with South Africa’s first multi-… ...

The secretary of state visited Johannesburg’s Soweto township on the first day of ... our own struggle for freedom and equality in the United States," said Blinken. "And South Africa’s ...