nelson mandela

Nelson Rolihlala Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and politician who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999 and as the first black president of South Africa. He was the leader of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1991, when the ANC was declared the winner of the first fully democratic election in South Africa, until his resignation in 1999. He was the country’s first black president, and the first president of the post-apartheid South Africa. He was also the first president of the African National Congress to come from the ranks of the black majority in the party.