when did apartheid end

Apartheid in South Africa officially ended in 1994. This was marked by the country's first democratic general elections held on April 27, 1994, in which Nelson Mandela was elected as the country's first Black president. The end of apartheid came after years of internal protest, international sanctions, and negotiations that began in the early 1990s, notably led by President F.W. de Klerk's government repealing apartheid laws and starting discussions with the African National Congress (ANC). The final legal repeal of apartheid laws took place in the early 1990s, with a new constitution adopted in 1993 that enfranchised all races, culminating in the 1994 elections that ended white minority rule.