<Tr> <Th> First time </Th> <Td> 27 April 1995 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Related to </Th> <Td> South African general election, 1994 </Td> </Tr> <P> Freedom Day is a public holiday in South Africa celebrated on 27 April . It celebrates freedom and commemorates the first post-apartheid elections held on that day in 1994 . The elections were the first non-racial national elections where everyone of voting age of over 18 from any race group, including foreign citizens permanently resident in South Africa, were allowed to vote . Previously, under the apartheid regime, non-whites in general had only limited rights to vote while indigenous black South Africans had no voting rights whatsoever . </P> <P> It is part of the twelve public holidays determined by the Public Holidays Act (No. 36 of 1994). </P>

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