Born-Frees

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The term born free is explains a person born from 1994 upwards. Born frees are often describes as privileged, spoilt and kids of a silver platter. They have rights and access to vast amount of things. Rights come with responsibilities. In most instances children of democracy often fail to adhere with the responsibility that comes along with the responsibilities.

South Africa’s “born frees” – a nickname for those born in the year of the country’s first free elections – turn 23 this year, coming of age at the same time as a democratic SA. While they acknowledge the importance of remembering the struggle, the future is where their focus lies. Born frees are South Africa first group born during democracy and comprise nearly a quarter of national population according to the Government data. Children born after 1994, the year of the birth of democracy are called the ‘born free’ generation. However, the title bears more weight than raised free from the shackles of apartheid - it means living with all the expectations of a nation.
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In South Africa freedom landed in 1994 April when the late Nelson Mandela was released from prison after 27 years in prison. Briefly apartheid was a system of institutionalised racial segregation and discrimination South Africa between blacks and whites in 1994- 1991, .Freedom wasn’t obtained in walk at the park. The born-free generation is reminded constantly by the older generations that the culture of the country is in their hands and those they carry hope for a better life all South Africans 
 “People who lived in the apartheid times were oppressed and lived under very harsh conditions, and they remind us [born frees] that we are reaping the benefits sewed by the people who fought to make living conditions much better Ntombi Khumalo explained that being born free means being active participants in the democracy of the country.
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Ntando Mlotshwa a Tshwane University of Technology explained  that “freedom day is a commemoration of the day when our country was freed from the white oppression”. Mlotshwa added that it’s essentially that people must celebrate freedom day.




 Andiswa Mdanyana a Journalism student said to that “most people don’t celebrate freedom day because most people especially the “born-free” generation don’t understand the significance of a freedom day and how it was fought for and came about. “


Many people are sceptical about the concept of born frees is one of the biggest myths in post-apartheid South Africa. It is said that the children born in 1994 and after, are born frees. Although nobody has ever defined what born free means, one can reasonably deduct that the so-called concept refers to the coincidence of being born in a free South Africa. 


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