The newly elected Parliament chose Thabo Mbeki as Mandela’s successor in the presidency. The formal election completed the transition initiated by the 1999 general election. Mandela kept his promise not to seek a second term, creating a precedent for democratic succession; he continued public service after leaving office, while the new government inherited poverty and inequality shaped by colonial dispossession and apartheid.
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