As protests and struggles against apartheid had increased, the government realised that they could no longer keep the blacks under their rule through repression. The white regime changed its policies. Discriminatory laws were repealed. Ban on political parties and restrictions on the media were lifted. After 28 years of imprisonment, Nelson Mandela walked out of the jail as a free man. Finally, at the midnight of 26 April 1994 , the new national flag of the Republic of South Africa was unfurled marking the newly born democracy in the world. The apartheid government came to an end, paving way for the formation of a multi-racial government. How did this come about let us hear Mandela, the first president of this new South Africa, on this extraordinary transition After the emergence of the new democratic South Africa, black leaders applead to fellow blacks to forgive the whites for the atrocities they had committed while in power. They said let us build a new South Africa based on equality of all races and men and women on democratic values, social justice and human rights. The party that ruled through oppression and brutal killings and the party that led the freedom struggle as together, to draw up a common constitution. After two years of discussion and debate they came out with one of the finest constitutions has ever had This constitution gave to its citizens the most extensive rights available in any country. Together they decided that in the search for a solution to the problems, nobody should be excluded, no one should be treated as demon. They agreed that everybody should become part of the solution, whatever they might have done or represented in the past. After tow years of discussion and debate they came out with one of the finest constitution the world has ever had. This constitution gave to its citizens the most extensive rights available in any country. Together, they decided that in the search for a solution to the problems nobody should be excluded, no one should be treated as a demon they might have done or represented in the past. the preamble to the South african Constitution sums up this spirit.