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Mike Hanna

‘Free at last’: When South Africa voted in democracy, kicked out apartheid

A crowd of some 40.000 African National Congress (ANC) supporters listen to an address by Nelson Mandela at a rally in Mafikeng, South Africa, 1994 [File: Walter Dhladhla/AFP]

He cast a vote.

There is nothing remarkable about that. In this year alone nearly 50 percent of the world’s population will head to the polls in at least 64 countries. They may not all meet the bar of being free and fair but that is still some four billion people who will fill in a ballot in some form or another.

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