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- In 1991, Nelson Mandela was elected the president of the African National Congress (ANC), and his friend and colleague, Oliver Tambo, was elected the ANC’s national chairperson.
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In 1991, Nelson Mandela was elected the president of the African National Congress (ANC), and his friend and colleague, Oliver Tambo, was elected the ANC’s national chairperson. Mandela continued to negotiate with President F.W. de Klerk toward the country's first non-racial elections.
The African National Congress won a 63 percent share of the vote at the election, and Mandela, as leader of the ANC, was inaugurated on 10 May 1994 as the country's first Black President, with the National Party's F.W. de Klerk as his first deputy and Thabo Mbeki as the second in the Government of National Unity.
- Nelson Mandela
- 1994
At the conference, he was elected ANC President, replacing the ailing Tambo, and a 50-strong multiracial, mixed gendered national executive was elected. Mandela was given an office in the newly purchased ANC headquarters at Shell House, Johannesburg, and moved into Winnie's large Soweto home.
2 days ago · Nelson Mandela, deputy president and later president of the African National Congress—and president of South Africa—addressing the Special Committee Against Apartheid, convened in his honour at the UN General Assembly, on June 22, 1990, in New York City.
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1 day ago · July 18, 1918, Mvezo, South Africa. Died: December 5, 2013, Johannesburg (aged 95) Title / Office: president (1994-1999), South Africa. Political Affiliation: African National Congress. Umkhonto we Sizwe. Awards And Honors: Nobel Prize (1993) Recent News. Apr. 6, 2024, 7:52 PM ET (AP)
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Nov 9, 2009 · In February 1990, de Klerk lifted the ban on the ANC and other opposition groups and released Mandela. In 1994, Mandela became president of South Africa and South Africa adopted a new constitution ...
