Pollsters and analysts say these could be the most pivotal elections since the country's first democratic vote 30 years ago, in 1994. Here's what's at stake.

Why does this election matter? This year is the 30th anniversary of South Africa’s first democratic elections, but millions of people continue to suffer from economic challenges similar to those ...

Thirty years ago, the South African miracle came true. Millions voted in the country’s first democratic elections, seemingly delivering a death blow to apartheid. The African National Congress ...

NKANDLA, South Africa (AP) — Months ahead of South Africa’s election, 20-year-old Amahle Ncane and her friends decided to turn peer pressure on its head and made their own special pact: Unlike ...

FILE - Then African National Congress leader, Nelson Mandela casts his vote April 27, 1994 near Durban, South Africa, in the country's first all-race elections. South Africans celebrate "Freedom Day" ...

Three decades ago, South Africa held its first democratic election, closing the door on the apartheid era. And Nelson Mandela was elected its first Black president.Today, the country is still led ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — South Africa will hold pivotal national elections May 29 as polls show the ruling African National Congress could lose its majority for the first time since it came to ...

South Africa: Drained but Proud - How It Felt to Organise South Africa's First Democratic Election in Just 4 Months 21 May 2024 ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africans celebrate their “Freedom Day” every April 27, when they remember their country's pivotal first democratic election in 1994 that announced the ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africans celebrate their "Freedom Day" every April 27, when they remember their country's pivotal first democratic election in 1994 that announced t ...

South Africans celebrate "Freedom Day" every April 27, when they remember their country's pivotal first democratic elections in 1994 that announced the official end of the racial segregation and ...