Mwenda Ntarangwi

Mr. President I have come
To report to you
That South Africa
Is today free

When President Nelson Mandela said these words facing the grave of John Libangibalele Dube on the 21 April 1994, as he cast his vote in an all-race election in South Africa, he was both participating in and creating history. He became the first president of a free Republic of South Africa and also a torch-bearer of an 82 year political movement under the ANC.

In 1912, John Dube was ele...read more