South Africa celebrates 30 years of freedom post-apartheid this weekend

On Saturday, South Africa will celebrate 30 years since Nelson Mandela became the country’s first democratically-elected Black president. Under Mandela’s leadership, a new constitution abolished apartheid and afforded all South Africans equal rights. While Mandela’s party, the African National Congress, has ruled the country ever since that historic 1994 vote, recent polls suggest this could be the first year South Africans vote them out of power. The World’s Carol Hills spoke with Thabo Leshilo, the politics editor of The Conversation Africa.