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De Klerk would later announce Mandela's release on 11 February 1990. [14] South Africa held a whites only referendum in March 1992 asking if they approved the end of apartheid, which the result was 68% for yes over Conservative opposition. [15] An interim constitution was set up in 1993 in preparation for the 1994 South African general election ...
In 2004, Johannesburg granted Mandela the Freedom of the City, [476] and in 2008 a Mandela statue was unveiled at the spot where Mandela was released from prison. [477] On the Day of Reconciliation 2013, a bronze statue of Mandela was unveiled at Pretoria's Union Buildings. [ 478 ]
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 ...
A Look at Nelson Mandela's Memoir According to South African History Online , On 7 July 1996,in a television broadcast President Nelson Mandela confirmed the rumours that he would not stand for re ...
Mandela was imprisoned in 1962 and finally released in 1990, after which the country began to take the steps to ending apartheid — leading to Mandela’s election as president in 1994.
Nelson Mandela was released on 11 February 1990 from Victor Verster Prison in Paarl near Cape Town. On 21 March 1990 South West Africa became independent as Namibia. In May the government began talks with the ANC. In June the state of emergency was lifted and the ANC had agreed to a ceasefire.
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 ...
Nelson Mandela (right) gives one of his first press interviews after his release from prison in February 1990. On 2–4 May 1990, the ANC met with the South African government at the Groote Schuur presidential residence in Cape Town , in what were touted as the first of several "talks about talks", intended to negotiate the terms for more ...