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An hour, a new series, Race and Reconciliation.

Audrey Brown explores how race still plays a part for those living in South Africa.

Can racism ever be eradicated?

This programme contains strong language.

South Africa, South Africa, South Africa, South Africa.

On the 27th of April 1994, we South Africans of all races stood together for the very first time

in long patient cues waiting to vote for a black man called Nelson Mandela to lead our country.

This had never happened before.

Up until then, South Africa was ruled by a white minority which subjected millions of black people

to a brutal campaign of suppression and racial domination.

And our votes on that day were meant to put an end to all of that and bring on a new non-racial democratic country.

My name is Audrey Brown from the BBC World Service.

I was one of those millions of South Africa who stood and voted.

It's 14 years later and I'm here at the Union Buildings in Pretoria

where a big political rally is underway to commemorate that day in 1994.

I want to find out just how far South Africa has come in wiping out the racism and anger and bitterness of the apartheid past.

Recent racial incidents across the country have shaken the nation.

From a video showing African students forcing black women cleaners to drink beer,

perform athletics and then eat stew that had been urinated in,

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