After the election results confirmed an ANC victory, Mandela addressed supporters and urged them to build a government of national unity. The ANC won a large majority but not the two-thirds threshold required to write the constitution alone. The election ended white minority rule through a negotiated constitutional process, while deep inequalities in land, wealth and opportunity remained.
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What was historic about Mandela’s vote on 27 April 1994?
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The vote followed a lifetime in which apartheid denied him voting rights.
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