Twenty years after coming to power in South Africa's first universal franchise election, the African National Congress can justly say that South Africans are a good deal better off than they were in 1994.
The 69th session of the UN General Assembly has opened in New York. Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, South Africa's minister of international relations and cooperation, will be there with mixed emotions.
Johannesburg, the vibrant city of gold, is Africa’s own New York.