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Farouk Chothia | |
BBC News, Johannesburg | |
At the height of the racist system of apartheid, only white people could sit on the benches of Joubert Park in Johannesburg. | |
Today only black people are sitting here, relaxing after voting in the marquees that have been set up for the election. | |
It is a reminder of how South Africa has changed in the 30 years since the country’s last white ruler, FW de Klerk, handed power to Nelson Mandela. | |
“Those days of apartheid are over. They will never come back. Now we are all equal,” Simon Mohale tells me. | |
Today I did not see a single white voter at the polling station here. | |
Almost all of them moved out of the area when apartheid collapsed while black people - who previously could not live here - moved in. | |
Mohale says: | |
White people are still welcome here. We are one.” | |
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