Freedom Day is a public holiday in South Africa celebrated on 27 April. It celebrates freedom and commemorates the first post-apartheid elections held on that day in 1994. The elections were the first non-racial national elections where everyone of voting age of over 18 from any race group, including foreign citizens permanently resident in South Africa, were allowed to vote.

The Freedom Route has been initiated by various KwaZulu-Natal tourism stakeholders to promote the freedom related struggles of especially the main freedom icons of this province such as Mahatma Gandhi, John Langalibalele Dube, Alan Paton, Albert Luthuli, Nelson Mandela and others.

The Freedom Route will take you on a journey into the history of our heroes that have helped shape South Africa into a Rainbow Nation. Other freedom related sites around Durban and Pietennaritzburg have also been included to allow tourists to package their own special tour according to their field of interest and to encourage tourists to visit these fascinating historical places, which are In close vicinity to each other.