1. NELSON MANDELA “A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.“ “Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.”

2. Former President of South Africa 1994-1999

3. NELSON’S EARLY LIFE   Born In Transkei, South Africa on July 18,1918.   Born into the royal family of the Transkei, his father was the chief of the tribe.   After his father’s death, Nelson assumed the role in his tribe which his father would have done.

4. EDUCATION Attended College with ambitions to become a lawyer, but was expelled for participating in a student protest. Attained a law degree from the University of the Witwatersrand and was later articled to a firm of white attorneys.

5. Nelson Mandela’s Impact on Africa   Held numerous positions in the African National Congress (ANC), including Secretary and President at one time.   Found the ANC Youth League in 1944, whose main purpose was to overthrow the current government and its apartheid ways South Africa’s white minority government policy of racial separation.

6.   Mandela was arrested in 1962 along with several other members of the ANCYL and sentenced to 5 years of hard labor in prison.   Convicted of Treason in 1964 and was sentenced to life in prison at Robben Island maximum-security prison.   While in prison, Mandela became a symbol of the anti-apartheid movement among South Africa’s black population and among the international community that opposed apartheid

7. FREEDOM   Released from Prison on February 18, 1990 by former South African President F.W. de Klerk

8. DEMOCRACY   Mandela was inaugurated as the first democratically elected State President of South Africa on 10 May 1994   Served as President until June of 1999.

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