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Orania in the Northern Cape markets itself as a cultural haven.
30 YEARS OF DEMOCRACY

Apart from us: The living skeletons of apartheid in Orania and Kleinfontein

These towns are not anomalies, they are barometers of how far South Africa still needs to go in confronting the unfinished business of its past.

  • Khothalang Moseli
3 min read
Bring him back home: Jazz drummer Kesivan Naidoo, who now lives in Switzerland, will be performing work commemorating 30 years of democracy in South Africa. Photo: Jacqui van Staden
30 YEARS OF DEMOCRACY

Jazz in the key of freedom

Kesivan Naidoo blends local jazz with global influences to mark 30 years of democracy

  • Kibo Ngowi
6 min read
Full of hope: People queue to vote in South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994. Photo: Brooks Kraft/Getty Images
30 YEARS OF DEMOCRACY

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

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

  • Lunga Mzangwe
8 min read
Knife edge: Voters sing while they wait to make their crosses at a voting station on 27 April 1994 in Lindelani, in what was then Natal. (Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Image)
30 YEARS OF DEMOCRACY

30 YEARS OF DEMOCRACY: The 1994 elections had no mapping, no voters roll, but lots of goodwill

The first democratic election was touch and go until six days before the 27 April 1994 poll

  • Paddy Harper
6 min read