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Nelson Mandela was Suid-Afrika se eerste swart president, asook die eerste president na die beëindiging van apartheid en die eerste president verkies daar in 'n volkome demokratiese verkiesing.

Hy het gedien vanaf 1994 tot 1999.

Hy was ook 'n apartheid afskaffer en 'n sleutelfiguur in die stryd om afsondering te beëindig in Suid-Afrika.

Omdat hy die eerste post-apartheid president was, was sy administrasie se taak die afbreek van die stelsel wat rassisme ingestel het en die bevordering van versoening onder die rasse.

Die stryd om apartheid te beëindig het dekades geduur en alhoewel Mandela eers vreedsame protes van die bewind gesteun het, was hy later mede-stigter van die militante vleuel van die African National Congress in 1961.

In dieselfde jaar het hy 'n ondermynings-kruistog gelei teen die regering, maar is die volgende jaar gearresteer.

Hy is skuldig bevind op aanklagte van sameswering om die regering omver te werp en veroordeel tot lewenslange tronkstraf tydens die Rivonia Verhoor.

Mandela het byna dertig jaar spandeer in die gevangenis, eerstens op Robbeneiland.

Later is hy geskuif na Pollsmoor Gevangenis en toe weer na Victor Verster Gevangenis.

Groepe van regoor die wêreld het druk uitgeoefen dat hy vrygelaat word uit die tronk en dit het uiteindelik gebeur in 1990 toe burgerlike onrus in Suid-Afrika toegeneem het.

Hy het meegedoen aan die gesprekke met President F.W. de Klerk om apartheid uit te wis en die opstel van veelrassige verkiesings, wat uiteindelik plaasgevind het in 1994.

As kandidaat vir die African National Congress (ANC), is Mandela verkies in die amp.

Tydens sy administrasie, het hy ook die Government of National Unity (Regering van Nasionale Eenheid) gelei, wat 'n nuwe grondwet gepropageer het vir die land.

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Nelson Mandela was South Africa's first black president and also the first president after the termination of apartheid and the first president elected there in a wholly democratic election.

He served from 1994 until 1999.

He was also an apartheid abolitionist and a key figure in the battle to end segregation in South Africa.

Because he was the first post-apartheid president, his administration was tasked with dismantling the system that institutionalized racism and promoting reconciliation among the races.

The struggle to end apartheid lasted for decades, and although at first Mandela endorsed peaceful protest of the regime, he later cofounded the militant wing of the African National Congress in 1961.

The same year, he led a subversion crusade against the government but was arrested the following year.

He was convicted on charges of conspiracy to overthrow the government and condemned to life in prison during the Rivonia Trial.

Mandela spent nearly thirty years in prison, at first on Robben Island.

Later he was moved to Pollsmoor Prison, and still later he was moved to Victor Verster Prison.

Groups from all over the world lobbied for him to be liberated from prison, and he finally was in 1990 as civil unrest in South Africa escalated.

He joined the talks with President F.W. de Klerk to eradicate apartheid and set up multiracial elections, which finally took place in 1994.

As the candidate for the African National Congress, Mandela was voted into office.

During his administration, he also led the Government of National Unity, which propagated a new constitution for the country.

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