Tag: history

Nelson Mandela, South Africa and The End of Apartheid

It was THE Election of 1994. Mandela was running for President of South Africa. Mark D Phillips and Andrea Peyser, a married columnist and photographer for The New York Post, traveled to South Africa to witness the true end of apartheid. For the first time in their lives, people born with black skin – the majority in this proud and beautiful nation – would be casting their votes.