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- Exactly 30 years ago, on May 10th 1994, Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as president of South Africa, following the end of apartheid. His party, the ANC, was widely credited with liberating the country's Black majority from the racist system of oppression that made South Africa a pariah for nearly half a century.
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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.
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- 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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Amnesty InternationalStefan Simanowitz: There will only ever be one Mandela but there are many others around the world following in his footsteps
Today marks 30 years since Nelson Mandela became President of South Africa. For Amnesty International’s Europe Media Manager, Stefan Simanowitz, it was an important moment marking the start ...
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South Africa election 2024: When is the poll and what is at stake for the ANC?
President Cyril Ramaphosa says the ANC's achievements should not be forgotten [EPA] South Africa is heading for a general election in late May, with...50% of the vote for the first time in 30 ...
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Apr 27, 2024 · Nelson Mandela. Nelson Mandela. Nelson Mandela, 2003. In April 1994 the Mandela-led ANC won South Africa’s first elections by universal suffrage, and on May 10 Mandela was sworn in as president of the country’s first multiethnic government.
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The new National Assembly's first act was to elect Nelson Mandela as President, making him the country's first black chief executive. He then appointed the Cabinet of Nelson Mandela . The date 27 April is now a public holiday in South Africa , Freedom Day .
Mr Mandela’s African National Congress (ANC) party won 252 of 400 seats in the first democratic elections of South Africa’s history. As part of the inauguration ceremony, he pledged his...
