The election ended apartheid’s system of racially restricted political participation and brought the African National Congress to power. It followed a long liberation struggle and marked a decisive break in formal racial rule, while leaving profound economic inequalities in place.
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The election ended apartheid’s system of racially restricted political participation and brought the African National Congress to power. It followed a long liberation struggle and marked a decisive break in formal racial rule, while leaving profound economic inequalities in place.
This event by itself ended the afterlives of slavery and colonial rule and eliminated racial inequality.
False. South Africa holds its first democratic election under universal suffrage was an important milestone, but it did not by itself end the afterlives of slavery, colonial rule, or racial inequality.