Many predict the DA won’t be able to match its current majority in the city following steady declines since 2016 as new political players look to cement their position in council…
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The Release of Nelson Mandela (1990): On February 11, 1990, the world’s media descended on Cape Town as Nelson Mandela stepped out of Victor Verster Prison a free man after 27 years. Hours later, he addressed a massive, surging crowd of over 100,000 people from the balcony of Cape Town City Hall. His speech—broadcast live to hundreds of millions worldwide—marked the official death knell of apartheid and established Cape Town as the global stage for South Africa’s democratic dawn.
