SOUTH AFRICA

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[Amy-in-PHX]

News coverage of South Africa's first election with universal suffrage of persons aged 18 and older, on the 26th-27th April 1994, follows.  I was looking for video of South Africans, dancing as they waited in line at the polling places.  When I think of South Africans that is the image that comes to my mind.  I remember seeing that on the news, but was unable to find any video like that preserved on the Internet.  (I wonder whether I imagined it, or got confused.)  Anyway, 27 April is a national holiday in South Africa, called Freedom Day.

[Amy-in-PHX]

There is a website by South Africans, which contains a wealth of information about the country.  Here is an excerpt from its "About" page, together with a link to the site.
http://www.southafrica.co.za/about-us/

South Africa Online. It’s the most famous and well-used top level domain in South Africa. In fact, if you use the search term ’south africa’ when searching in one of the big search engines (Ask, Bing, Google and Yahoo), you will find that South Africa Online often features in the top ten results from tens of millions of pages!  Established in September 1996, South Africa Online is a widely acknowledged entry point for people anywhere seeking information on South Africa due to its large and comprehensive site directory and easy to remember URL. Currently the directory contains over 17,000 web sites, all “human-edited” and neatly categorised. Highly popular additional services include a postal code search and a foreign-exchange rates table.