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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.
1994 in South Africa saw the transition from South ... on 27 April and Nelson ... to protect the South African embassy. 11 – The Freedom Front submits their list of ...
Nelson Mandela casts his vote in the 1994 election. Following the election of 27 April 1994, Nelson Mandela was sworn in as President of South Africa. The Government of National Unity was established; its cabinet made up of twelve African National Congress representatives, six from the National Party, and three from the Inkatha Freedom Party.
Following the elections, 27 April subsequently became a national public holiday, Freedom Day. [ 29 ] In a Sunday Independent article on the 20th anniversary of the election, Steven Friedman , who headed the IEC's information analysis department during the election , stated that the lack of a voters roll made verifying the results of the ...
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 ...
This article lists the members of the National Assembly of South Africa during the 22nd South African Parliament, which sat between 1994 and 1999.Members were elected during the elections of 27 April 1994, South Africa's first under universal suffrage, and served until the elections of 2 June 1999.
The limited theatrical screening will debut Oct. 23 and feature the late singer’s never-before-released show from Durban, South Africa and will be followed by a new live album that will be ...
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 ...