Mandela was inaugurated at the Union Buildings in Pretoria. In his address, he honoured the people who had sacrificed for freedom and called for a society free of racial discrimination and fear. The ceremony marked the end of formal apartheid government, not the end of colonial dispossession, economic inequality or the struggle to transform institutions shaped by white rule.
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What did Mandela’s 10 May inauguration signify?
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Formal apartheid government ended, but social and economic transformation remained unfinished.
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