Alvina Mahlangu was born and raised in South Africa in the 1960s when apartheid was still in effect. She is currently employed as a housekeeper for a media company. She talked about her experience growing up in South Africa during apartheid, her first election, and why she believes crime and violence against women and children were lower in the country during apartheid.

Member of the Democratic Alliance (DA) and former mayor of Johannesburg Dr Mpho Phalatse says she wouldn't have joined the DA in the Helen Zille era. She was reflecting on the past three decades from being a medical doctor to joining a political party.

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