South Africans celebrate the start of the FIFA World Cup in Johannesburg by flying the national flag. It was the first time that the event had been hosted by an African country and the event was characterised by racial unity and pride in the country. On 27 April 1994, South Africa held its first democratic elections. The new flag of the Republic of South Africa was authorised by then State President FW de Klerk and adopted on Freedom Day, 27 April 1994. It was first flown on 10 May 1994 – the day Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as President of South Africa. However, A man sings Senzeni na’ (We are suffering) at the disciplinary hearing of former African National Congress Youth League President Julius Malema in Library Gardens, Johannesburg. Senzeni na’ (We are suffering) means, ‘What have we done (to deserve this)?’. The song was traditionally sung at funerals during the apartheid era, but increasingly features at protests against the government’s slow rollout and inefficient management of basic services to poor communities. In 2014, according to police statistics, there were an average of 34 ‘service delivery protests’ a day in South Africa, many of them violent. A common refrain at protests is that the ANC government has not done enough to improve the quality of life for non-white South Africans since the end of white minority rule in 1994.
