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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.
The apartheid system in South Africa was ended through a series of bilateral and multi-party negotiations between 1990 and 1993. The negotiations culminated in the passage of a new interim Constitution in 1993, a precursor to the Constitution of 1996; and in South Africa's first non-racial elections in 1994, won by the African National Congress (ANC) liberation movement.
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 Mandela (1918–2013) 1994: 10 May 1994 14 June 1999 5 years, 35 days 22nd: ANC: Mandela (Reshuffle 1 · 2 · 3) ANC—NP—IFP: The first post-apartheid president of South Africa. The first black chief executive of South Africa, and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election.
5 Timeline since 1961. 6 Standards. ... 6 February 1952 15 years, 57 days Windsor: Hertzog Smuts ... Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) 1994: 10 May 1994
The term was coined in 2009 by paranormal researcher Fiona Broome, who wrongly recalled that former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela died in prison in the 1980s, Bainbridge notes. Broome ...
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) 10 May 1994 16 June 1999 5 years, 37 days: African National Congress: 2 Thabo Mbeki (1942–) 16 June 1999 24 September 2008 (resigned) 9 years, 100 days: African National Congress: 3 Kgalema Motlanthe (1949–) 25 September 2008 9 May 2009 226 days: African National Congress: 4 Jacob Zuma (1942–) 9 May 2009 14 ...
Nelson Mandela casts his vote in the 1994 election. Following the election of 27 April 1994, Nelson Mandela was sworn in as President of South Africa. The Government of National Unity was established; its cabinet made up of twelve African National Congress representatives, six from the National Party, and three from the Inkatha Freedom Party.