The lifting of the ANC ban to the apartheid regime implied that the end of the segregation era was over. the president announced that the party which had been banned for thirty years, along side others had been lifted. He also announced the release of a dozen freedom fighters and the comuting or termination of death sentences.
Republic
Unitary state
Semi-presidential system
Military dictatorship
Much like today, the key entertainment for Elizabethan London was: sports, visual entertainment (plays, for the time), and gambling.
Tennis, in particular, became a particularly popular sport during the Elizabethan age while artists like Shakespeare came to prominence with plays that the common masses enjoyed.