The new National Assembly elected Mandela President, making him the first Black head of state chosen through a universal democratic election. The election of a president by parliament followed the vote of 27 April and was part of the interim constitutional arrangements. Mandela’s mandate rested on decades of collective resistance and on the votes of millions of previously excluded South Africans.
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