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    Mandela’s Release

    Radaely Tavera G.
    Known and loved around the world for
    his commitment to peace, negotiation and
    reconciliation, Nelson Rolihlahla
    Mandela was South Africa's first
    democratically elected president (1994-
    1999). Mandela was an anti-apartheid
    revolutionary and political leader, as well
    as a philanthropist with an abiding love
    for children.
    Mandela and the apartheid.

    Translated from the Afrikaans


    meaning 'apartness' Apartheid called
    for the separate development of the
    different racial groups in South
    Known and loved around the world for
    Africa. Apartheid made laws that
    his commitment to peace, negotiation and
    forced the different racial groups to
    reconciliation, Nelson Rolihlahla
    live separately as well as inferior-
    Mandela was South Africa's first
    quality education for black children.
    democratically elected president (1994-
    In the 1960s black South Africans
    1999). Mandela was an anti-apartheid
    were deprived of their citizenship. In
    revolutionary and political leader, as well
    response to apartheid, a new
    as a philanthropist with an abiding love
    generation of young activists such as
    for children.
    Nelson Mandela organized a series
    of non-violent strikes and boycotts.
    Mandela rose up against apartheid and
    called upon all South Africans to join
    him. Mandela was fighting against
    apartheid, but he was also fighting for
    something: a better world, in which the
    freedom, justice and dignity of all were
    respected. Even before his release in
    1990, Mandela began negotiating with
    the government to end apartheid.
    Through those negotiations he helped to
    prevent a bloody civil war. Mandela
    went on to become the country’s first
    democratically elected president.
    Mandela had been a prisoner for 27 years,
    arrested in 1962 and convicted in 1964 of
    conspiring to overthrow the state. He was
    sentenced to life imprisonment For 18 of
    those years, Mandela endured the harsh
    conditions of Robben Island. By the late
    1970s the almost invisible prisoner had
    become a symbol of South African
    oppression. During the 1980s ‘Free Nelson
    Mandela’ became a worldwide campaign.
    Although he was arrested and imprisoned
    for 27 years for fighting for freedom,
    Mandela refused to give up the struggle or
    give in to hate.
    In 1993, Mandela and President de Klerk
    were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for
    their work towards abolishing apartheid. On
    10 May 1994, Nelson Mandela, at the age
    of 77, was inaugurated as South Africa’s
    first black president and F W de Klerk
    became Mandela’s first deputy. During his
    presidency, Mandela also worked to protect
    South Africa's economy from collapse.

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