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…showed last 75 words of 377 total…president. Mandela's government was praised for its treatment of South Africa's white minorities. Mandela's government had its critics. Crime increased during his term, but the violent war between the races ended. Many South African said life is better today than it was before Mandela took power. Mandela married for the third time on his 80th birthday in 1998. A year later he retired from the presidency. The 400-year-old prison on Robben Island is now a museum.