South Africans buried apartheid and colonial oppression on Freedom Day in 1994 and opened a new chapter of unity, reconciliation.
The South African Human Rights Commission expressed concern about growing levels of racism in its Freedom Day message on Wednesday.
President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday spoke of how proud he was at the "substantial progress" South Africa has made since 1994.
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/ 12 October 2010
All South Africans must be made to feel part of Heritage Day, even if that meant accepting that some would gather around a braai.
SA voters have the power to stand up against corrupt government officials who abuse their positions of power, DA leader Helen Zille says.
President Jacob Zuma reflected on the long way government still had to go given apartheid’s lingering legacy, at Freedom Day celebrations on Tuesday.
The high murder rate in SA has killed the idealism and dreams people had after the 1994 elections, the Freedom Front Plus (FF+) said on Tuesday.
Tomorrow SA turns 16. And what a pimply, moody teenager we’ve turned out to be.
Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) will take its claim of victory in last month’s election over President Robert Mugabe to the United Nations Security Council this week. MDC secretary general Tendai Biti will lead a delegation to New York, where he will tell a Security Council session that the party is not prepared to partake in a presidential run-off.