How ya doing South Africa ?

                                                       

Trainee nurse Nisha Lutchman runs a small novelty cake business with her sisters.

She lives with her family in a semi-rural location just outside Walkerville, south of Johannesburg,

where violent robberies are a constant source of fear.

Their house has been robbed so often that the TV is now in a cage bolted to the wall.

"I have heard from older people what it was like before 1994 :

how you had to carry your pass around with you to go to different areas but the crime

was much less then,"

"I don't have freedom. I can't walk to the shops without taking off my jewellery.

I passed my driving test but I have never driven on my own for security reasons,"

"Many things about South Africa are better now. I can be friends with whoever I want, I

don't have to worry about what race they are. But crime is much worse than before.

I  just want it to be a safer place."

                                                                                       

Khensani Khoza, aka Ms Candy K, is a radio DJ who presents a show on VOW FM,

a university radio station in Johannesburg.

A child of South Africa's new black middle class, she is a law student but has ambitions  to become a star radio or TV presenter.

"I don't want to imagine if 1994 hadn't happened, but I can imagine it:

I would not have been able to go to university, to study law,"

She believes the ANC government of the last 20 years should be given more time to make changes.

"I am one of those people who believes in giving my government time.

It is very easy to criticise but I think people should remain optimistic and hope they can deliver

on their promises."

         

                         

Chanelle Olivier is one of the top female skateboarders in South Africa.

Also a student, she has studied ballet as a hobby.
"I think the ballet helps with skateboarding, it's all about balance,"

But the world of competitive skating is a male-dominated one that she discovered almost by accident
.
"A friend got me into playing skating games on the computer and then we started skating for real," 

Chanelle says the skating community is close-knit and racially mixed 

"It's like a family. It's a small skating scene in South Africa and there's a sense of

community, it's not really competitive like in some other countries.

                                 

Tyron Miller is an up-and-coming motocross rider competing in national events.

When he is not competing, he works for his father's ophthalmology business

"I think for my parents' generation it was a really big change,"

he says of the end of white-minority rule.

"I am conscious that I am one of the first generation to be born free in South Africa but because

of that I don't think about it,"

"I have only known this South Africa. I love it.

No other country has the diversity that South Africa has.

There is nowhere else I'd rather be."

South Africans will celebrate "Freedom Day" this weekend -

a celebration of 20 years of democracy.

On 27 April 1994, millions of black people were able to vote :

in the first free and fair elections.

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Dr Mlungisi Kwini  is among the top ten richest black people in south africa

lutchman is a guyanese hindu name ::LOL::

came from Latchmana

I know ....wundah how dem end up in Johannesberg .

could me Tricky as well....