In 1983, newly elected president ............. lifted the ban on the ANC and called for a nonracist South Africa, breaking with the conservatives in his party.

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• …………….. was the first black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, and primate of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (now the Anglican Church of Southern Africa).
• …………… was the first black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, and primate of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa.
• ..................was sworn in as the first black president of South Africa, with de Klerk serving as his first deputy.
• A member of the African National Congress party beginning in the 1940s, ……………. was a leader of both peaceful protests and armed resistance against the white minority’s oppressive regime in a racially divided South Africa.
• Improving race relations, discouraging blacks from retaliating against the white minority and building a new international image of a united South Africa were central to President ......... agenda.
• ………….. became the first black president of South Africa in 1994.
• ………………. sailed to South Africa as part of his work for a Muslim legal firm, where he experiences discrimination first hand, and worked to improve the rights of immigrant Indians.
• On February 10, .............., after a series of secret talks, F.W. de Klerk, the newly appointed president granted Mandela his freedom.
• In 1980 ............ introduced a “Free Nelson Mandela” campaign that made the jailed leader a household name and fuelled the growing international outcry against South Africa’s racist regime.
• .............returned to South Africa in 1975 and was appointed Anglican Dean of St. Mary's Cathedral in Johannesburg -— the first black person to hold that position.