FILE — Then African National Congress President Nelson Mandela, left, and secretary general Cyril Ramaphose, now South African President, right, at a news conference in Johannesburg Monday, August 30, 1993. On Saturday, April 27, 2024 the country will celebrate Freedom day when In 1994 people braved long queues to cast votes after years of white minority rule which denied Black South Africans the right to vote. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell/File)