Mandela becomes president Eye Witness

DEFINING MOMENT MANDELA BECOMES PRESIDENT, 10 MAY 1994 Having served 27 years in prison, Nelson Mandela – a man who fought for equality in South Africa – became President of the country. GILLIAN KERRUISH Gillian Kerruish was born in South Africa’s northern capital Pretoria in 1984 and has lived in at least half of the country’s provinces. Apart from a trip to Switzerland when she was aged seven, Gillian has not left the borders of South Africa. She lives in Johannesburg, where she works as a receptionist at a law firm. She’s also studying to be a sworn translator in Mandarin Chinese. “I knew with the absolute conviction of a child that this would be the greatest day of my entire life” South Africa was changing. After three centuries of…

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