Who became the first democratically elected President of South Africa?

Nelson Mandela

Answer: C, Nelson Mandela. South Africa’s first inclusive democratic national election took place in 1994 after the apartheid system began to end. Nelson Mandela, a leading member of the African National Congress and a major opponent of apartheid, won the presidency and became the country’s first democratically elected Black president. A, F. W. de Klerk, was a South African political leader who helped begin negotiations to end apartheid, but he was not the first democratically elected president in this context. B, Julius Nyerere, was a leader of Tanzania, not South Africa. D, Martin Luther King, was an American civil-rights leader and never served as South Africa’s president. Memory cue: Mandela, 1994 and South Africa’s democratic presidency belong together.

This is a Class 9 Civics question. Chapter: Constitutional Design. Topic: Democratic transition in South Africa.