ASISA Academy Newsflash – April 2025
On 27 April 1994, my husband and I happily entertained our one-year-old daughter for hours while we queued to cast our first-ever vote in our country’s first national democratic elections. It was both a profound and historic moment. The jubilation in the air was palpable as millions of previously disenfranchised South Africans celebrated the freedom to cast their first vote. A long-awaited era had finally dawned, one in which we would see the Bill of Rights (largely informed by the Freedom Charter) enshrined in our brand new South African Constitution.