South African democracy marks 20th anniversary

Published April 25, 2014 3:41pm ET



JOHANNESBURG (AP) — “How can you describe falling in love?”

That is how retired archbishop Desmond Tutu this week recalled voting in South Africa’s first all-race elections on April 27, 1994, an exultant moment when the nation’s majority blacks and other oppressed groups broke the shackles of white rule.

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