THIRTY YEARS OF DEMOCRACY BY FIONA WAKELIN & KOKETSO MAMABOLO
Thirty year global retrospective
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he year 2024 will mark thirty years since South Africa became a democracy. To put this into perspective, we take a look at some of the highlights, globally and locally, over the last 30 years.
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1994 South Africa holds its first fully democratic elections and Nelson Mandela is sworn in as first democratic president
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Apple Computer, Inc. releases the first Macintosh computers to use the new PowerPC Microprocessors Rwandan genocide begins in Kigali, Rwanda Three-time Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna is killed during the San Marino Grand Prix in Imola, Italy Cold War: the last Russian troops leave Germany Jeff Bezos founds Amazon
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First passengers travel through the channel tunnel (chunnel) from England to France Iraq disarmament crisis continues 1995 Microsoft releases Windows 95 America Online and Prodigy release browsers that make the internet accessible to the general public for the first time Sarin gas attack takes place on the Tokyo subway Jacques Chirac is elected President of France Constitutional Court of South Africa abolishes capital punishment in South Africa in the case of S v Makwanyane and Another Iraq disarmament crisis continues Operation Desert Storm officially ends
