Question
How did South Africa get independence?

Answer

A. As protests and struggles against apartheid had increased, the government realised that they could no longer keep the blacks under their rule through repression.
B. The White regime changed its policies. Discriminatory laws were repealed. Ban on political parties and restrictions on the media were lifted.
C. After 28 years of imprisonment, Nelson Mandela walked out of jail as a free man.
D. Finally at the midnight of 26th April 1994 the new national flag of Republic of South Africa was unfurled marking the newly born democracy in the world.
E. The apartheid government came to an end, paving the way for the formation of a multiracial government.
F. After the emergence of the new democratic South Africa, black leaders appealed to fellow blacks to forgive the whites for the atrocities they had committed while in power. They said let us build a new South Africa based on equality of all races and men and women, on democratic values, social justice and human rights.
G. The party that ruled through oppression and brutal killings and the party that led the freedom struggle sat together to draw up a common constitution.

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