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Nelson Mandela, in full Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, byname Madiba,
Black nationalist and the first Black president of South Africa (1994–99). His
negotiations in the early 1990s with South African Pres. F.W. de Klerk helped
end the country’s apartheid system of racial segregation and ushered in a
peaceful transition to majority rule. Mandela and de Klerk were jointly
awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1993 for their efforts
Mandela received more than 260 awards over 40 years, most notably
the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
From 1994 to 1999, Mandela was President of South Africa. He was the
first such African to be elected in fully representative democratic polls.
Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist and leader of
the African National Congress and its armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe. He
spent 27 years in prison, much of it in a cell on Robben Island. The rest of
his incarceration was in Pollsmoor Prison, on convictions for crimes that
included sabotage committed while he spearheaded the struggle against
apartheid.
Following his release from prison on 11 February 1990, his
advocacy of a policy of reconciliation and negotiation helped lead
the transition to multi-racial democracy in South Africa. Since the
end of apartheid, he was widely praised, even by former
opponents.
Mandela died on 5 December 2013, a
celebrated elder statesman who continued to voice his opinion on
topical issues. In South Africa he is often known as Madiba, an
aristocratic title adopted by the elderly members of the royal clan
that he belongs to. This title has come to be synonymous with
Nelson Mandela.
Nelson mandela
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela ; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013)
was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political
leader who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994
to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first
elected in a fully representative democratic election. His
government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid by
tackling institutionalised racism and fostering racial reconciliation.
Ideologically an African nationalist and socialist, he served as the
president of the African National Congress (ANC) party from 1991
to 1997.
Mandela was born into the Thembu royal family in Mvezo, Union of South
Africa. He studied law at the University of Fort Hare and the University of
Witwatersrand before working as a lawyer in Johannesburg. There he
became involved in anti-colonial and African nationalist politics, joining the
ANC in 1943 and co-founding its Youth League in 1944