This text repeatedly contrasts the past with the present or the future. We can use coordinated clauses to contrast two views, for emphasis or effect. Given below are sentences carrying one part of the contrast. Find in the text the second part of the contrast, and complete each item. Identify the words which signal the contrast. This has been done for you in the first item.
For decades the Union Buildings had been the seat of white supremacy, and now....

Explanation

For decades the Union Buildings had been the seat of white supremacy and now it was the seat of a rainbow gathering of different colours and nations for the installation of South Africa.s first democratic, non racial government.