Nelson Mandela : Long Walk to Freedom — Flashcards

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Nelson Mandela’s inauguration as South Africa’s first black President after democratic elections in 1994. It marks the start of a new democratic era in the country.

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Apartheid was a political system that separated people according to race. It created racial domination and kept black people under unfair rule in South Africa.

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Mandela’s ANC party won 252 of the 400 seats in South Africa’s first democratic elections. This helped him become the country’s first black President.

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The ceremony took place in the Union Buildings amphitheatre in Pretoria. An amphitheatre is a building without a roof, with rows of seats rising in steps.

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For decades it had been the seat of white supremacy, and then it became the site of South Africa’s first democratic, non-racial government. This shows the change from injustice to freedom.

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Mandela was accompanied by his daughter Zenani.

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Emancipation means freedom from restriction. Mandela uses it to show that South Africa had finally gained political freedom.

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He means the long period of apartheid and racial oppression in South Africa. It caused deep suffering for many people.