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Freedom Day is a public holiday in South Africa celebrated on 27 April. [1] It commemorates the first post- apartheid elections held on that day in 1994 and the day on which the new constitution was introduced. The elections were the first national elections where everyone of voting age of over 18 from any race group, [2] was allowed to vote.
On 27 April 1994, a date later celebrated as Freedom Day, South Africa held its first elections under universal suffrage. The ANC won a resounding majority in the election and Mandela was elected president. [62]
UnFreedom Day is an unofficial annual event that is marked every year on or around 27 April. [1] UnFreedom Day is organised to counter the official South African holiday called Freedom Day, an annual celebration of South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994. UnFreedom Day was started by Abahlali baseMjondolo in Durban in 2006.
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1994 South African general election. General elections were held in South Africa between 26 and 29 April 1994. [1] The elections were the first in which citizens of all races were allowed to take part, and were therefore also the first held with universal suffrage. The election was conducted under the direction of the Independent Electoral ...
Family Day: 1980 27 April Freedom Day: 1995 [2] First democratic election held (in 1994) 1 May Workers' Day: 1995 [4] 16 June Youth Day: 1995 [5] Commemorates the Soweto uprising led by secondary school students in 1976. [3] 9 August National Women's Day: 1995 [6] Commemorates the 1956 march of approximately 20,000 women to petition against ...
David Bosch. David Jacobus Bosch (13 December 1929 – 15 April 1992) was an influential missiologist and theologian best known for his book Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission (1991) — a major work on post-colonial Christian mission. He was a member of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (NGK), also known by ...
Freedom Day (South Africa) on 27 April, anniversary of the first general election in South Africa after the end of apartheid in 1994; Freedom Day (Malawi) on 14 June, anniversary of the first free election in Malawi in 1994; Juneteenth on 19 June in the United States, also known as Freedom Day, commemorating the day in 1865 when Union troops ...