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Ramaphosa hails ANC record as South Africa marks 30 years of democracy

People attend Freedom Day celebrations in Pretoria, South Africa [Themba Hadebe/AP]

President Cyril Ramaphosa has hailed South Africa’s achievements under his party’s leadership as the country celebrated 30 years of democracy since the end of apartheid.

April 27 is the day “when we cast off our shackles. Freedom’s bells rang across our great country,” Ramaphosa, 71, said on Saturday, reminding South Africans about the first democratic election in 1994 that ended white-minority rule.

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