WORLD HISTORY

DEVELOPMENT IN MIDDLE EAST

DEMOCRATIC REFORMS IN MIDDLE EAST

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following Sub-Saharan African countries ended “apartheid” in 1993?
A
Democratic Republic of Congo
B
South Africa
C
Nigeria
D
Zimbabwe
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -How did apartheid end? Under the administration of the South African president F.W. de Klerk, legislation supporting apartheid was repealed in the early 1990s, and a new constitution-one that enfranchised blacks and other racial groups-was adopted in 1993.

Detailed explanation-2: -Countries such as Zambia, Tanzania and the Soviet Union provided military support for the ANC and PAC.

Detailed explanation-3: -Apartheid, the Afrikaans name given by the white-ruled South Africa’s Nationalist Party in 1948 to the country’s harsh, institutionalized system of racial segregation, came to an end in the early 1990s in a series of steps that led to the formation of a democratic government in 1994.

Detailed explanation-4: -Racial segregation existed in South Africa in the form of the Apartheid. It existed in South Africa till the 1990s. This discriminatory system in South Africa ended due to a campaign by Nelson Mandela.

Detailed explanation-5: -The African National Congress won a 63 percent share of the vote at the election, and Mandela, as leader of the ANC, was inaugurated on 10 May 1994 as the country’s first Black President, with the National Party’s F.W. de Klerk as his first deputy and Thabo Mbeki as the second in the Government of National Unity.

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