TY - BOOK AU - Mandela, Nelson. TI - Dare not linger: the presidential years SN - 9780374134716 U1 - 968MAN PY - 2017/// CY - New York PB - Farrar, Straus and Giroux KW - Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013 N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - In 1994, Nelson Mandela became the first president of a democratic South Africa. From the outset, he was committed to serving only a single five-year term. During his presidency, he and his government ensured that all of South Africa?s citizens became equal before the law, and he laid the foundation for turning a country riven by centuries of colonialism and apartheid into a fully functioning democracy ER -