South Africa elections: » We just want a nation »- Nomavenda Mathiane- former journalist and novelist
30 years after the end of the apartheid regime in South Africa, the South African population are heading to the polls. These elections are the most challenging national and provincial elections since the end of the apartheid. The vote aims to establish a new National Assembly and state legislatures. The ruling party, the Nelson Mandela party, the African National Congress, might lose, according to observers.
Nomavenda Mathiane is a former journalist, witness to apartheid regime in South Africa. She worked for major South African newspapers such as Business Day, the World newspaper.
She stresses on « Your Voice » that she is not a politician. However, as a former journalist she thinks the ANC party fails to respond to the South African needs. She is nearly 80 years old. As a reporter during the apartheid regime, she struggled to work. But she was part of the journalists who witnessed and suffered the June 16 1976 Youth Soweto uprising. For those who do not know, this riot was a high school students protestation for better education. On Your Voice, Nomavenda Mathiane, points out her challenges during the apartheid regime. She raises concerns regarding to the governance in South Africa today. She is now a novelist, always seeking the truth by introducing her own story, which is also the issue of the blacks in South Africa, the land ownership.
