Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

Nelson Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and politician who was a South African president from 1994 to 1999. He was the first black president in South Africa. Nelson Mandela was born in 18th. July 1918 and died at the age of 95 in 5th. December in 2013.
Nelson Mandela was the son of one of South Africa's leading dignitaries, Chief Henry Mandela. Already as a young law student, he got involved in political opposition to the white minority regime. Nelson Mandela joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1942. Nelson Mandela and hi's colleagues made armed actions after the shooting of unarmed protesters at Sharpeville in March and the banning of anti-apartheid groups in 1960. Nelson Mandela became the commander of the ANC's armed wing in 1961. In August of the following year, he got arretsed and jailed for five years. Nelson Mandela got sentenced again in 1964, but this time to life imprisonment, for hi's involvement for planning armed actions. Hi's first prison year's was in the infamous Robben Island Prison, it was a very good prison with maximum security. He got transferred to Pollsmoor prison in Cape Town in 1984. He got moved to the Victor Verster prsion in 1988. Sometimes the prison replaced the guards around Mandela because they were afraid that the guards maybe would treat him good. Mandela rejected offers by hi's jailers for being released in exchange for accepting Bantustan policy while he was in prison. He became a cultural symbol of freedom and equality by all over the world. South African president De Klerk lifted the ban on the ANC and other anti-apartheid organisations. Nelson Mandela got released from Victor Verster prison on 11 February 1990. Nelson Mandela and president De Klerk shared the Nobel Peace Price in 1993. Mandela won praise while he was president, even from hi's former white opponents in South Africa. After Nelson Mandela retired as president in 1999, he became a advocate for a variety of social and human-rights organisations. Nelson Mandela retired from public life in 2004 because of hi's bad health and he tried to reduce hi's number appearances, but he didn't disappear completely. 12 million schoolchildren across South Africa honoured Nelson Mandela with a specially composed song on hi's 94th birthday. Nelson Mandela's last public outing was during the closing ceremony of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in Johannesburg. Mandela has been married three times, hi's longest married was a 38 year marriage to Winnie Madikizela, who was hi's second wife. He had two daughter's with Winnie Madikizela, hi's youngest daughter was 18 months old when he was sent to prison. He passed away because of hi's lung infection at hi's home in Johannesburg.