NELSON MANDELA PRESENTATION

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Rolihlahla Mandela was born in Transkei, South Africa on July 18, 1918. His first name could be interpreted, prophetically, as "troublemaker." The Nelson was added later, by a teacher.

- Mandela grew up on cattle herding farm until the death of his father. Then lived with a powerful relative, the acting regent of the Thembu people. - Years of daily exposure to the inhumanities of apartheid, where being black reduced one to the status of a non-person, kindled in him a kind of absurd courage to change the world.

- political beging actively partecipate in from 1952 - he led prominently in the ANC's (Afrikaner-dominated National Party - in 1955, he led "congress of the whose adoption of the Charter provided the anti-apartheid cause - Mandela and 150 others werw arrested December 1956 and charged - Mandela starts a law firm & provide free or low-cost help to many black people

Mandela was convicted of sabotage and sentenced to life in prison. He would serve 27 years in prison before being released. Most of his sentence was served in one tiny cell. The only time Mandela was let out of his cell was to perform backbreaking labor.

After prison, Mandela decided on a new approach. He was escorted to the State President's office to start negotiating not only his own release but also the nation's transition from apartheid to democracy.On Feb. 2, 1990, President F.W. de Klerk lifted the ban on the A.N.C. and announced Mandela's imminent release.

- On 1990, state president Klerk reversed the ban on the ANC and other anti-apartheid organizations, and announced that Mandela would shortly be released from prison. - Mandela was released from Victor Verster Prison in Paarl on 1990 . - On the day of his release, Mandela made a speech to the nation. - He declared his commitment to peace and reconciliations with the county's white minority - He also said his main focus was to bring the black majority and give them the right to vote in both national and local elections

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