By the time he was elected president in 1994, after having spent 27 years in prison for his fight against apartheid, it had been more than 300 years since blacks in South Africa had been allowed to vote.
Mwaka 2004, wakati wa urais, tawkimu kadhaa zikiwemo za Waziri wa sasa wa mambo ya nje Alain Juppe walihukumiwa kuhusika na kesi hiyo. Bw Juppe alipewa kifungo cha miezi 14 nje