Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela has become South Africa's first black president after more than three centuries of white rule. Nelson Mandela's African National Congress (ANC) party won 252 of the 400 seats in the first democratic elections of South Africa's history.

The inauguration ceremony took place in the Union Buildings amphitheatre in Pretoria today, attended by politicians and dignitaries from more than 140 countries around the world.

This is a sentence that Nelson Mandela said.

"Never again will this beautiful land experience the oppression of one by another"