It governed all aspects of life, restricting non-whites to unskilled jobs and inferior education, services and living conditions.
The race-based system of apartheid that favoured the white minority over the black majority became official government policy in 1948.
Mandela committed to only one term, stepping down in 1999. Internationally respected as an icon of reconciliation, his death in 2013 was met with an outpouring of emotion worldwide. But about one in five black households are classed as living in extreme poverty compared to 2.9 percent of white households, the Institute of Race Relations says.
However, mining has shed about 300,000 jobs, now only making up about seven percent of gross domestic product from a peak of some 20 percent in the 1980s.
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