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Nelson Mandela
1918-2013
Nelson Mandela was born in Thembu, on July 18, 1918.
On December 5, 2013 Nelson Mandela died at age 95.
In 1942 Mandela joins the African National
Congress, South Africa's main campaigner for black
equality.
In 1964 Mandela and six others were sentenced to
life imprisonment.
Mandela walks out of prison, hand in hand with
wife Winnie. Three years later on 15 October
Mandela and de Klerk share Nobel Peace Prize.
The Prison Years
In 1962 he was captured, and sentenced
to five years in prison for leaving the
country illegally and inciting a strike.
He was finally released from prison in
1990 after over 27 years of unbroken
incarceration.
After the released he was elected
president of the ANC in 1991.
The Nobel Prize
Nelson Mandela was awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize, sharing it with
Frederik Willem de Klerk,
President of South Africa at the
time.
Nelson Mandela & Martin Luther King
Mandela and Martin Luther King never met but they
fought for the same cause at the same time on two
differents continents.
Actual Situation in Africa
The socio-political situation of the population doesn't see
anymore an oppressed black majority and a white minority
dominance.
He lived for an ideal and he made it real.
he lived for a ideal and he made it real.
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