Nelson Mandela and Apartheid

Apartheid was a rigid policy of segregation of the nonwhite population.Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was the first president of South Africa to be elected in full represented democrat elections.In this same year came Nelson Mandela, who was a leading figure in the African National Congress (ANC) in 1964, was released from prison on Feb. 11, 1990 after 27 years and was later elected president. In 1991 the remaining major discriminating laws that supported apartheid were terminated, including the Population Registration Act of 1950.