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2 Ceremonial State President of South Africa (1961–1984) ... Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) 1994: 10 May 1994 14 June 1999 5 years, 35 days African National Congress: 18
Nelson Mandela: 18 July 1918: 5 December 2013: 95 years, 140 days: 34,839 days 2: Marais Viljoen: 2 December 1915: 4 January 2007: 91 years, 33 days: 33,271 days 3: P. W. Botha: 12 January 1916: 31 October 2006: 90 years, 292 days: 33,165 days 4: Charles Robberts Swart: 5 December 1894: 16 July 1982: 87 years, 223 days: 31,999 days 5: Frederik ...
De Klerk then became Deputy President in Mandela's ANC-led coalition, the Government of National Unity. In this position, he supported the government's continued liberal economic policies but opposed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission set up to investigate past human rights abuses because he wanted total amnesty for political crimes.
Presided over the centennial celebration of the ANC in 2015 as well as the death of Nelson Mandela in 2013. With less than a year before his term was to expire, Zuma resigned on 14 February 2018 following the demands of the ANC that Zuma should resign, or risk facing a successful vote of no confidence by the National Assembly. 5 Cyril Ramaphosa
After Mandela's release from prison on February 11, 1990, there would be other jobs: president of the ANC, and then, of course president of South Africa in 1994. It seemed a completely improbable ...
The 1994 general election, held on 27 April, was South Africa's first multi-racial election with full enfranchisement.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 ...
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (/ m æ n ˈ d ɛ l ə / man-DEL-ə, [1] Xhosa: [xolíɬaɬa mandɛ̂ːla]; born Rolihlahla Mandela; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.
Time bestowed the "Person of the Year" title to Trump once before, in 2016. It named Democratic President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris "Person of the Year" in 2020, after they ...