30 Years of democracy | First democratic elections in 1994 ended white minority rule

JOHANNESBURG - President Cyril Ramaphosa used Saturday’s Freedom Day address to detail the progress of what he calls South Africa’s “young democracy”. 

But he acknowledged that despite the gains made, a lack of electricity and clean drinking water remain a major concern as well as the divide in access to healthcare, transport and jobs. 

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Responding to detractors of the ANC’s governance over the last 30 years, Ramaphosa said only those who shut their eyes to progress would deny the country is a better place than 1994. 

Anti-apartheid veteran Valli Moosa, spoke to eNCA.