Nelson Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born July 18th 1918.
He was a former president of South Africa. Who spent 27 years in prison for pioneering the struggle against apartheid (a system of legalised racial segregation enforced by the National Party (NP) South Africa government between 1948 and 1994).
He was released from prison in 1990, he has received over one hundred awards, but the m ost important one would have to be the Nobel Peace Prize which he received in 1993.

Nelson was the first in his familly to attend school, where he was given the name Nelson by his teacher ( Horatio Nelson) who had trouble pronouncing his name ( Rolihlahla, which means “to pull a branch of of a tree” or more particularly “troublemaker”)
At the age of ninteen Nelson took up a hobby in running and boxing.

On August 5th 1962 Mandela was arested after living on the run for 17 months and was sent to prison in the Johannesburg Fort. The CIA was said to have tipped off the police to his whereabouts and his disguise. He was sent to prison her 5 years.

During his 27 years in prison Nelson Mandela received a degree of Bachelors of Law. On february 2nd 1990 Mandela was released , the event was broadcasted all over the world.
Nelson Mandela made a huge impact on peoples life, he tried to make it better for all the blacks in the world. His 27 years in prison made people in the world angree, he stayed in prison while murderes and drug dealers were let free, he fought for his freedom and the freedom of everyother black person.

“During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to the struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”