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Nelson Mandela’s election win, 1994

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Nelson Mandela’s election win, 1994

The bullet holes in the ballot box in James Hubbard’s cartoon allude to a crime wave that swept through South Africa after the end of apartheid. Many South African immigrants of the 1990s were fleeing crime more than anything else.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

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by James Hubbard

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Carl Walrond, South Africans – Migration, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/cartoon/689/nelson-mandelas-election-win-1994 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 August 2024.