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MANDELA REPORT

Mandela of South Africa Nelson Mandela became president of
South Africa in 1994. He is the country's first black president.
He was elected by the country's National Assembly. The
Assembly had been chosen in South Africa's first elections in
which the country's blacks were allowed to vote. Blacks won a
majority of the Assembly seats, and the Assembly selected
Mandela as president. These developments marked the
beginning of a new era in South Africa. They resulted in blacks
gaining control of the government after a long period of
domination by the white minority. Since 1991, Mandela had
served as president of the African National Congress (ANC), a
largely black group that opposed the South African
government's policy of rigid racial segregation called
apartheid(Connolly 2000, 45). He had long been a leader of
protests against apartheid and was imprisoned in 1962 on
charges of conspiring to overthrow the white-minority
government. While in prison, he be...