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Turning point · The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994
Pretoria — the inauguration
10 May 1994 — Nelson Mandela is sworn in at the Union Buildings as South Africa’s first democratically elected president, jets of the old regime dipping their wings overhead. The map of a free Africa is complete.
This is one scene of Chapter 11 — The Four Years That Decided It in The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994.
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