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The end of apartheid in South Africa brought about hope and much expectation in a fledgling democracy.
For the first time in years, South Africans of all races could vote and choose their preferred leaders in the country’s first democratic election on 27 April 1994.
The poll was ushered through a 1993 interim Constitution – pending the finalisation of a final document, which then President Nelson Mandela signed into law in 1996.
Seventeen amendments have been made to the document so far, changing South Africa’s social and political landscape.
Watch video below to find out some of the landmark rulings by the Constitutional Court:
