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Nelson Mandela
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was the son of one of South Africa’s pleading dignitaries, Chief Henry Mandela of the Thembu Tribe. Born on 18th July 1918, Rolihlahla was adopted by Jongintaba Dalindyebt5,1 high ranking Thembu regent after the death of his (Rolihlahla’s) father in 1927. Mandela was then trained by his new guardian for a role within the tribal leadership.
The first in his family, Mandela completed his primary education at a local missionary school. He studied law at the University of Witwatersrand, where he became involved in the movement against racial discrimination and forged key relationships with Black and White activists.
In 1944, Mandela joined the African National Congress (ANC) and worked with fellow party members, including Oliver Tambo, to establish its youth league, the ANCVL. Nelson Mandela’s commitment to politics and the ANC grew stronger after the 1948 election victory of the Afrikaner dominated National Party, which introduced a formal system of racial classification and segregation-apartheid, that prohibited non-whites’ basic rights maintaining white minority rule.
The following year, the ANC adopted ANCYL’s plan to achieve full citizenship for all South Africans through boycotts, strikes, civil disobedience and other non-violent methods. Mandela helped lead the ANC’s 1952 campaign for the Defiance of Unjust Laws, travelling across countries to organise protests against discriminatory policies, and promoted the manifesto known as the Freedom Charter, ratified by the Congress of the People in 1955. Also in 1952, Mandela and Tambo opened South Africa’s first law firm which offered free or low-cost legal counsel to those affected by apartheid legislation.
On 5th December 1956, Mandela and 155 others were arrested and went on trial for treason. Similarly, Mandela’s struggle continued for years-protests imprisonment, Non-violent resistance etc.
Finally, in the 1990s, Mandela led the ANC in its negotiations with the governing National Party and various other South African political organisations to end apartheid and allow a multiracial government. The talks earned Mandela the Nobel Peace Prize in December 1993. In the elections of 1994, ANC won the National Elections of South Africa and Mandela was sworn in as the President of the country.
As President, Mandela established the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate human rights and political violations committed by both supporters and opponents of apartheid between 196o and 1994. He also instituted many social and economic reforms to improve the conditions of Blacks in South Africa.
After retiring from politics in 1998. Mandela remained a devoted champion for peace and social justice in his own country and around the world. In zoos, Mandela campaigned for AIDS awareness and treatment programmes. The disease later claimed the life of his son.
Diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2001, Mandela grew very weak in later years. In 2009, 18 July was declared as ‘Nelson Mandela International Day’. He died on 9 December 2013 from a recurring lung infection. Nelson Mandela was an international hero, with ideologies that sharply resembled those of India’s Mahatma Gandhi.
