HE the Minister of Culture and Sports Salah bin Ghanem bin Nasser al-Ali and South African ambassador Shirish Soni and other dignitaries at a reception hosted in Doha in connection with South Africa’s 23rd Freedom Day on Thursday. The occasion commemorated the day when all South Africans could cast a vote for the first time in the country’s history and the state emerged a democratic nation, the embassy said in a statement. PICTURE: Othman al-Samarraee