Bodyguards preserve shut watch as Nelson Mandela celebrates his victory in the South African presidential elections of 1994. As the head of the African National Congress, he helped to construct the nation’s new multiracial authorities and to determine the free elections wherein he gained his presidency.
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Bodyguards preserve shut watch as Nelson Mandela celebrates his victory in the South African presidential elections of 1994. As the head of the African National Congress, he helped to construct the nation’s new multiracial authorities and to determine the free elections wherein he gained his presidency.
David Turnley/Corbis/VCG
Three a long time in the past, South Africa held its first democratic election, closing the door on the apartheid period.
And Nelson Mandela was elected its first Black president.
Today, the nation is still led by Mandela’s political get together – the African National Congress. But polls present that voters are rising more and more dissatisfied with the get together’s management, and subsequent month’s nationwide elections may result in the ANC having to share energy with opposition events.
Thirty years in the past, South Africa turned an emblem of a multiracial democracy. Decades on, how is that legacy holding up?
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This episode was produced by Jonaki Mehta and Megan Lim.
It was edited by Courtney Dorning.
Our govt producer is Sami Yenigun.