| NELSONMANDELA | Post-apartheid South Africa's first president (6,7) |
| MANDELA | South Africa's first president chosen by universal suffrage (7) |
| MBEKI | Post-apartheid South African president, Thabo ... |
| RAMAPHOSA | Cyril ___, fifth president of post-apartheid South Africa |
| NATIONALANTHEM | Nkosi Sikelel iAfrika is the one for post-apartheid South Africa (8,6) |
| THABOMBEKI | South Africa's second post-apartheid president |
| HAMPSHIRE | First U.S. college to divest from apartheid South Africa |
| TOFREEDOM | Film about the life of South Africa's first democratically elected president, Mandela: Long Walk... (2,7) |
| KRUGER | South Africa's first national park |
| RANCHERO | Farmworker runs with star of post-apartheid S Africa, perhaps |
| BOTHA | South Africa's first P.M. |
| WESSELS | Kepler, South Africa's first postapartheid Test cricket captain (7) |
| TOWNSHIP | In apartheid South Africa, an urban area assigned to black nationals (8) |
| NADINE | Gordimer whose novel "July's People" was banned in apartheid South Africa |
| CHESTER | Springboks' post-apartheid poster boy historic 1995 Rugby World Cup, -- Williams (7) |
| ANC | Post-apartheid ruling org. |
| DESEGREGATION | Foolish egos denigrate the end of apartheid (13) |
| CAIRO | One endpoint of Africa's first railroad |
| LIBERIA | Africa's first and oldest republic |
| ELLEN | ___ Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's first elected female head of state |