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Nov 9, 2009 · The South African activist and former president Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) ... The following year, newly elected president F. W. de Klerk (1936-) lifted the ban on the ANC and called for a ...
Feb 9, 2010 · One year later, the ANC won an electoral majority in the country’s first free elections, and Mandela was elected South Africa’s president. Mandela retired from politics in 1999, but remained a ...
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Jul 21, 2010 · In South Africa, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is sworn in as the first Black president of South Africa. In his inaugural address, Mandela, who spent 27 years of his life as a political prisoner of ...
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Feb 9, 2010 · One year later, the ANC won an electoral majority in the country’s first free elections, and Mandela was elected South Africa’s president, a position he held until 1999. By: History.com Editors
Nov 20, 2020 · On April 27, 1994, the country elected Nelson Mandela, an activist who had spent 27 years in prison for his opposition to apartheid, in its first free presidential election. This Day in History ...
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Mar 12, 2024 · Two years after the vote to end apartheid, in 1994, South Africa held its first free and nonracial election, and Nelson Mandela—an activist who had spent 27 years in prison for his opposition to ...
Jul 17, 2018 · In 1994, Mandela was elected president of South Africa in the first elections open to black African voters. The following excerpt comes from his inaugural address to the nation. The time for the ...
