A GNU Dawn for a New Government After ANC Loses Its 30-Year Majority

2024 is a reconfiguration of South African democracy born in 1994

Caroline de Braganza
5 min readJun 18, 2024

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A pair of wildebeest
We gnu’s are going to work together! (Image by Patrick Fransoo from Pixabay)

It was a chilly Wednesday when I cast my vote on May 29. Also, a day of mixed emotions as I recalled how excited my late husband and I were when we cast our votes in the first post-apartheid democratic elections on April 27, 1994.

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Caroline de Braganza

Wise Older Woman (WOW). Poetry, essays, humor. Passion for mental health, social justice, politics, diverse cultures, the world and environment.