South Africa's first election held under universal adult suffrage, conducted from 26 to 29 April 1994 and won by the African National Congress with 62.7 percent of the vote. Nearly twenty million South Africans of all races voted, many for the first time in their lives, ending three centuries of white minority rule and formally closing the apartheid era. Nelson Mandela, released from prison in 1990 after twenty seven years, was inaugurated as the country's first Black president on 10 May 1994.
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Source South African General Elections 1994 (SAHO)
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Decades of internal and international pressure against apartheid forced the negotiations that produced South Africa's first universal suffrage election.
Source South African General Elections 1994 (SAHO)
The interim constitution CODESA's negotiations produced set the terms on which the 1994 election was held.
Source The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 1 (SAHO)
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The elections were the end of a long and harsh struggle for freedom within South Africa
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The country-wide elections were held on 27 April 1994, and were observed by a 60-member Commonwealth Observer Group (COG) under the leadership of a former Prime Minister of Jamaica, Michael Manley.
- Decisive Moment Of: Anti-Apartheid Movement
- Influenced By: Anti-Apartheid Movement
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