Thirty years ago, Black South Africans voted for the first time as the country celebrated the monumental birth of a democracy.
As I write this, South Africa is bathed in warm winter sunlight and South Africans are free.
That day, April 27, 1994, changed the lives of everyone in the country.
Those who hoped the bloodshed would derail democratic negotiations conveniently called it Black-on-Black violence.
In that time, as the apartheid government slowly settled the terms of its dissolution with political leaders it had long sought to suppress, 14,000 people died violently.
Persons:
Nelson
Organizations:
South
Locations:
South Africa