The event that marks the end of the apartheid regime in South Africa is often considered the first multiracial elections held in April 1994, which resulted in Nelson Mandela being elected as the country’s first black president. Finalized in the early 1990s, negotiations to dismantle apartheid involved complex discussions between the African National Congress, led by Mandela, and the ruling National Party. This transformation not only symbolized the end of decades of institutionalized racial segregation and oppression but also began a new era of reconciliation and nation-building in South Africa.