Cuba congratulates South Africa on Freedom Day

Cuba on Saturday congratulated South African people and government on Freedom Day, a date that commemorates the 30th anniversary of the end of apartheid system in the African country.

    April 27, 2024
    09:48

The Cuban Foreign Ministry (MINREX) reaffirmed on X Cuba´s willingness keep on strengthening bilateral friendship and brotherhood relations with South Africa.

Regarding the date, the Secretary of Organization of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), Roberto Morales Ojeda, sent his congratulations to the Communist Party of South Africa and the African National Congress.

On April 27, 1994, the first multiracial elections were held in South Africa, an event that consolidated the end of apartheid system and allowed the promotion of national identity.

Nelson Mandela, the anti-colonial fighter and freed after 27 years, won the elections back then, and went down in history as the first black president of his country.