Andrew Kenny

The rainbow election

The 1994 election rubber-stamped liberation. This year’s local elections, though, marked a real break with racial voting

issue 13 August 2016

 Cape Town

‘I’d like to switch mine with Donald Trump’s.’

South Africa has just seen her most encouraging election results ever. The general election of April 1994, which brought full democracy, was important in itself but its results were a foregone conclusion — the black majority voted for the ANC, as expected.

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