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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.
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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. It has ...
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.Its nine provinces are bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres (1,739 miles) of coastline that stretches along the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean; [15] [16] [17] to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; to the east and northeast by Mozambique and Eswatini ...
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 ...
21 October- The 2021 South African metalworkers strike ends, with workers represented by the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa winning a 5-6% annual pay increase 22 October - Following a high-profile trial ex-police officer Nomia Rosemary Ndlovu is convicted of murdering five relatives and her boyfriend over several years.
The Kingdom of Mapungubwe, which was located near the northern border of present-day South Africa, at the confluence of the Limpopo and Shashe rivers adjacent to present-day Zimbabwe and Botswana, was the first indigenous kingdom in southern Africa between AD 900 and 1300. It developed into the largest kingdom in the sub-continent before it was ...
[4] [5] In 1985, the government introduced a sweeping state of emergency in response to growing civil unrest, which included sweeping restrictions on freedom of movement, freedom of speech and freedom of the press, particularly for non-White South Africans. [6] In 1989, F. W. de Klerk was elected State President of South Africa, succeeding Botha.