FREE TO READ | Empowerment magazine looks back at 30 years of democracy

Nelson Mandela, the founding president of democratic South Africa, reminds us in his seminal autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, that in life, after climbing a great hill, one only finds there are many more to climb ahead.“I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come,” wrote Mandela. “But I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended.”As SA celebrates its 30th anniversary as a nonracial democracy and a stable…