/ 26 April 2024

30 YEARS OF DEMOCRACY: Older voters disillusioned after excitement of 1994 poll

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Full of hope: People queue to vote in South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994. Photo: Brooks Kraft/Getty Images

Many of them feel that the promises made at the dawn of democracy have not been met

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