Politics of South Africa
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The Republic of South Africa is a unitary parliamentary democratic republic. The President of South Africa serves both as head of state and as head of government. The president is elected by the Natio
The Prime Ministers of the British Dominions attending the 1926 Imperial Conference with King George V seated in the center.
Nelson Mandela was the first democratically elected President of South Africa.
The Houses of Parliament in the legislative capital of Cape Town is the seat of the Parliament.
The Union Buildings in the administrative capital of Pretoria.
Nelson Mandela
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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black
Politics of South Africa
…Party (NNP), which both introduced and ended apartheid through its predecessor, the National Party (NP), disbanded in 2005 to merge with the ANC. Nelson Mandela served as president from 1994 to 1999, and his successors were Thabo Mbeki (1999−2008), Kgalema Motlanthe (2008−2009) and Jacob Zuma (2009−2018). Zuma…
Mandela in Umtata, 1937
Mandela and Evelyn in July 1944 at Walter and Albertina Sisulu's wedding party in the Bantu Men's Social Centre
Mandela's former home in the Johannesburg township of Soweto