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Freedom Day poster
African National Congress (ANC) supporters have gathered to celebrate Freedom Day at Ohlange High School, in Inanda, north of Durban where Nelson Mandela cast his ballot in the first democratic election in 1994.
Ohlange is where the founding president of the ANC, John Langalibalele Dube, is buried.
Happy Freedom Day to all South Africans. Today in 1994, we went to go cast our vote in the first democratic elections. Those elections came after decades of struggle against a regime that was hellbent to break us as a people. We will forever celebrate this hard won democracy and…
— ANC SECRETARY GENERAL | Fikile Mbalula (@MbalulaFikile) April 27, 2026
His grandson, Langa Dube says there needs to be a way to reconnect with the masses.
“There are certain services that today, 32 years later, that we are not grumbling about. It’s quite telling. It would be a huge disappointment to Madiba if he could rise tomorrow, and John Dube, to see what they had been advocating is still not yet achieved. In as much as there is that little that has been achieved, but 32 years later a lot more could be done.”
