People during this time period generally used Africans as slaves because they were easy to capture and use for cheap labor. Settlers wouldn't have to paid people for the labor so their profits increased.
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The election of Nelson Mandela as president was the 20th-century event in South Africa's history that is most closely associated with the end of apartheid.
<h3>What is the Apartheid?</h3>
An Apartheid refers to the white-ruled South Africa's Nationalist Party that contributed to the country's harsh and institutionalized system of racial segregation.
The national party came to an end in the early 1990s in a series of steps that led to the formation of a democratic government in 1994.
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