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South Africans head to the polls on Wednesday to vote in the first national elections since the resignation of Jacob Zuma in 2018. The ANC has a new leader in Cyril Ramaphosa who is looking to retain the control that the party has held over the legislature since the election of Nelson Mandela a quarter of a century ago. The South African novelist and playwright, Zakes Mda, voted in those elections from self-imposed exile in Canada. He now divides his time between Ohio in the US -- where he works as a professor of creative writing -- and his native South Africa. What were his hopes for the future of South Africa back in 1994?