Celebrating Freedom on 27 April! 27 April 1994. There are dates that sit differently in a country's memory. Not as monuments, but as thresholds, moments when the world that existed before and the world that came after became impossible to confuse.
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27 April 1994 was that kind of day for South Africa.
In honour of this deeply significant day, we invite South Africans to experience the exhibition through ENTRY BY DONATION ONLY - we’ve put the entry fee on hold for the day*! And there will be hourly Guided Tours. [*Please note: Offer valid for South African citizens only. Standard rates apply to international visitors.]
What happened was, on the surface, procedurally simple: people stood in lines and cast votes, but the lines stretched for hours, sometimes kilometres. They moved through heat and cold, through neighbourhoods that had never before been asked to participate in their own governance.
Many of those standing in them were voting for the first time in their lives, some well into their seventies and eighties, for whom the wait had been measured not in hours but in decades.
The ballot was not the end of something. It was, as those who had fought for it understood better than anyone, the beginning of a longer, harder, less celebrated kind of work. The negotiations, the compromises, the careful dismantling of an architecture of exclusion that had been built over centuries, none of that was finished on that Tuesday in April. Much of it, honestly, is still underway.
But what was finished, decisively, irrevocably, was the fiction that some South Africans were citizens and others merely inhabitants of the land they lived on.
Freedom Day marks the moment that fiction was put to rest, officially and in public, under a sky that belonged to everyone.
Step into South Africa’s Freedom Story
Walk the path that shaped our democracy. The 100 life-size bronzes in this powerful exhibition narrate the country’s 350-year journey to the first democratic elections on 27 April 1994.
In honour of this deeply significant day, we invite South Africans to experience the exhibition through ENTRY BY DONATION ONLY - we’ve put the entry fee on hold for the day*!
We kindly encourage each visitor to make a monetary contribution that feels meaningful and appropriate to them. Every donation, regardless of amount, directly supports the sustainability of this important national heritage project.
Whether you’re visiting for the first time or returning with family and friends, at Long March to Freedom you can take a moment to reconnect with our shared heritage and the values that continue to shape our future.
ENJOY:
• Hourly Democracy Tours led by expert guides
• Jumping castle and Ubuntu Buddies fun and games for the kids
• Specials at the Liberation Cafe
• Henna Tattoo artist
WHAT: Celebrating Freedom on 27 April - Entry by Donation for South Africans
WHERE: Long March to Freedom, Century Boulevard, Century City
WHEN: 27 April 2026 Guided Tours on the hour every hour
BOOKING: Online via Hyperli, Wikideals or Webtickets or E This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or T 079 879 7880
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