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    Nelson Mandela was a lawyer and anti-apartheid activist from South Africa who served as President from 1994 to 1999. He was imprisoned for 27 years for conspiring to overthrow the apartheid government but was released in 1990 amid social upheaval. When news of his release reached the public, people danced in the streets and thousands came to welcome him, where he greeted them with a message of "peace, democracy and freedom for all." He went on to lead the African National Congress party to victory in the 1994 election, becoming South Africa's first black President and working to dismantle apartheid.

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    Nelson Mandela was a lawyer and anti-apartheid activist from South Africa who served as President from 1994 to 1999. He was imprisoned for 27 years for conspiring to overthrow the apartheid government but was released in 1990 amid social upheaval. When news of his release reached the public, people danced in the streets and thousands came to welcome him, where he greeted them with a message of "peace, democracy and freedom for all." He went on to lead the African National Congress party to victory in the 1994 election, becoming South Africa's first black President and working to dismantle apartheid.

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    Nelson Mandela was a lawyer and anti-apartheid activist from South Africa who served as President from 1994 to 1999. He was imprisoned for 27 years for conspiring to overthrow the apartheid government but was released in 1990 amid social upheaval. When news of his release reached the public, people danced in the streets and thousands came to welcome him, where he greeted them with a message of "peace, democracy and freedom for all." He went on to lead the African National Congress party to victory in the 1994 election, becoming South Africa's first black President and working to dismantle apartheid.

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    Nelson Mandela was a lawyer and anti-apartheid activist from South Africa who served as President from 1994 to 1999. He was imprisoned for 27 years for conspiring to overthrow the apartheid government but was released in 1990 amid social upheaval. When news of his release reached the public, people danced in the streets and thousands came to welcome him, where he greeted them with a message of "peace, democracy and freedom for all." He went on to lead the African National Congress party to victory in the 1994 election, becoming South Africa's first black President and working to dismantle apartheid.

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    Mandela's release from prison 1990.

    Nelson Mandela was born on July 18, 1918 and died on December
    5, 2013. He was a lawyer, anti-apartheid activist, politician and
    South African philanthropist who presided over his country from
    1994 to 1999. He was the first black president who led the
    Executive Power, and the first to be elected by universal suffrage
    in their country. His government dedicated itself to dismantling
    the social and political structure inherited from apartheid through
    the fight against institutionalized racism, poverty and social
    inequality, and the promotion of social reconciliation.
    In his practice as a lawyer, he was arrested several times for
    seditious activities and, as part of the board of the ANC, was
    prosecuted in the Treason Trial from 1956 to 1961. Influenced by
    Marxism, he secretly entered the South African Communist Party
    (SACP) and was part of its central committee.
    In 1962 he was arrested and charged with conspiracy to
    overthrow the government, for which he was sentenced to life
    imprisonment during the Rivonia Process.
    He was imprisoned for 27 years, first on Robben Island and then
    in Pollsmoor and Victor Verster prisons. International campaigns
    advocated his release, and he was released in 1990 amid a social
    upheaval in South Africa. He intervened in political negotiations
    with Frederik de Klerk to abolish apartheid and establish the
    general elections of 1994, in which he led the ANC to triumph at
    the polls.
    When the news of his release reached the ears of the population
    throughout the country, people began to dance in the streets
    and thousands of people came to shout his name and claim him
    at a rally in Cape Town. Faced with an impressive mass of people,
    eager to attend their first appearance in public in almost three
    decades, Mandela began his speech in this way: "I greet you all in
    the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all."

    Although he gave continuity to the liberal policies of previous


    governments, in his administration measures were implemented
    for land reform, the fight against poverty and the expansion of
    health services.
    In South Africa he is considered a figure of respect. He is also
    called the Father of the South African Nation.

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