In 1991, de Klerk's government started to make a new constitution that would make South Africa's government a nonracial democracy. The whites in South Africa agreed with the new congress, and in 1993 The African National congress agreed to change their government. South Africa's first non-racist election took place in 1994, and the African National Congress won that election. The new president was a recently released inmate by the name of Nelson Mandela. who played an important and controversial role in the ending of a segregated South Africa and the establishing of South Africa as a Democratic country.
Rolihlahla Dalibhunga Mandela is born in a small village in the Transkei province in the Eastern Cape of South Africa on July 18, 1918. He was in a tribe called The Madiba, his tribal clan, part of the Thembu people. His family has royal acquaintances. His great-grandfather was a King and Mandela's father is a respected counselor to the royal Thembu family. His father has four wives and he is one of thirteen children. .
On his first day of school, Rolihlahla is given the English name Nelson by an African teacher. After receiving a good education at local boarding schools, Mandela enters Fort Hare University and completes two years before deciding that he should leave for Johannesburg to avoid a marriage arranged for him by his guardian, Chief Jongintaba. Mandela then earns his B.A. degree, enrolls in law school and joins the ANC (AFRICAN NATONAL CONGRESS) which is an organization that was established in 1918 to promote black freedom. .
Believing that the ANC leadership is too staid, Mandela, Oliver Tambo and Walter Sisulu form the ANC Youth League. They plan to organize mass support for the ANC and make it a more verbal organization.1948; the National Party comes to power under Dr. Daniel Malan. His platform is called apartheid, meaning "apartness." They make new laws supporting racial discrimination and almost deleting almost all black rights.
