SOUTH AFRICA has celebrated the 30th anniversary of the end of the racist apartheid regime and the founding of its new democracy. 

Yesterday’s occasion was marked with a ceremony in the capital Pretoria that included a 21-gun salute and the waving of the nation’s multicoloured flag.

The African National Congress (ANC) has been in power ever since April 27 1994, the first democratic election that officially ended apartheid when black people were allowed to vote for the first time.