Headline : Has South Africas get-out-of-jail vote lived up to the hype?

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With elections fast approaching in South Africa, the BBC's Nomsa Maseko reflects on 30 momentous years of democracy and how the country has changed since the end of the racist system of apartheid.

My mother told me when she cast her ballot on 27 April 1994 that the vote felt like a "get-out-of-jail card" - she felt empowered.

She was 43 years old at the time - and like millions of other South Africans it was the first time she had voted.

It was the culmination of decades of resistance and armed struggle against racist and violent white-minority rule.

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