'What is the meaning of freedom if you don't have a job? Or if you don't have a house or land?' Gauteng premier David Makhura says on South Africa's 25th Freedom Day marking end of apartheid
A woman attends Freedom Day celebrations in Kwa-Thema Township, near Johannesburg. Sporting colourful outfits, South Africans celebrate Freedom Day, the holiday marking the 25th anniversary of the end of systematic discrimination known as apartheid. April 27, 2019.
"What is the meaning of freedom if you don't have a job? Or if you don't have a house or land?" Makhura said the government of the African National Congress party is working to get title deeds for black South Africans: "The land must belong to our people!" Makhura honoured Eudy Simelane, a star on South Africa's women's national soccer team and a gay rights activist who was gang-raped and murdered in Kwa-Thema in 2008. "Eudy did not die in vain," he said.
"I was born in the struggle," said Lucky Ntshabele, 34. "My father was an activist and as a boy I knew the smell of tear gas. From the land of suffering, we have come to Canaan, the land of plenty. But plenty still needs to be done." In this February 13, 1990, Nelson Mandela and Winnie Mandela give black power salutes as they enter Soccer City stadium in the Soweto township of Johannesburg, South Africa, shortly after his release from 27 years in prison. Mandela went on to become the country's first black president after the country's first all race elections in 1994. President Cyril Ramaphosa marked Freedom Day at a rally in Makhanda in Eastern Cape province.
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