The Cuban Foreign Ministry (MINREX) reaffirmed on X Cuba´s willingness keep on strengthening bilateral friendship and brotherhood relations with South Africa.

Regarding the date, the Secretary of Organization of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), Roberto Morales Ojeda, sent his congratulations to the Communist Party of South Africa and the African National Congress.

On April 27, 1994, the first multiracial elections were held in South Africa, an event that consolidated the end of apartheid system and allowed the promotion of national identity.

Nelson Mandela, the anti-colonial fighter and freed after 27 years, won the elections back then, and went down in history as the first black president of his country. pll/rgh/mks