🌍 Africa 7h ago · Eyaaz

What Sol Plaatje knew about freedom that we are still learning

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Every year on 27 April, South Africa pauses to mark the day in 1994 when, for the first time, every adult citizen was permitted to vote. It is a day of genuine historical significance, and the feeling it produces, even now, three decades on, is hard to define.



But what I know for sure is that Freedom Day does something to me that I suspect it does to many people who work in the history of South African political thought: it makes me think about those who wanted this freedom long before it arr

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