After decades of apartheid, the first free elections in South Africa took place on April 27, 1994. 30 years later, the former freedom fighters of the ANC have run down their country – especially where their fight began: in Soweto.
Abdel Madiehe walks through Walter Sisulu Square every day, and every day he frets about the state of this sprawling Soweto square named after a famous freedom fighter. The buildings around are crumbling, the streets are littered with deep potholes, and there is trash everywhere. The Kliptown train station next door looks like a battlefield. Sleepers, power lines, light poles, signal lamps, bus shelters, everything was looted, weeds overgrown the tracks. Only the pedestrian bridge remains intact; a group of noisy boys are doing gymnastics in its steel frames.
Source: Stern
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