The African National Congress is finally being called to task in South Africa’s election for its failure to deliver better lives for its people.
Voters line up outside the City Hall polling station in Johannesburg’s Central Business District on May 29, 2024, during South Africa’s general election.
Nelson Mandela, an anti-apartheid activist who spent 27 years in prison under the apartheid regime, led the ANC to its first victory in 1994, with. In 1999, after a single term in office, Mandela chose to leave power, bucking a trend in postcolonial Africa of leaders seeking to remain “1999 was the year I arrived in Cape Town.
In just a few years, the university had transformed from an almost exclusively white student body to 50-50. That was hardly equitable in a country where more than 90% of the country is nonwhite, but it was progress. The segregated education system had done nothing to prepare Black students for a university education, which was a source of frustration to all, though there was a sense of purpose in the collective effort to overcome it. I felt the pride and justice in the struggle I saw around me.
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