nelson mandela

Nelson Mandela served a total of 27 years in prison.
he was first sent to Robben Island, and later in Pollsmoor Prison and Victor Verster Prison. He was finally release in 1990following an international campaign that was lobbied for his release.

After he became a free man, Nelson Mandela became ANC President and led negotiations with President F.W. de Klerk to abolish apartheid and establish multi-racial elections. It became a reality in 1994 when he became president.
Upon becoming president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela established a new constitution and initiated the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate past human rights abuses. He also encouraged land reform, combat poverty and expand healthcare services.

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Nelson Mandela was born 18 July 1918 in South African.
Nelson Mandela studied law at the University of Witwatersrand. His involvement in the anti-colonial politics and movement started as he was living in Johannesburg.

Soon, he joined the ANC and becoming a founding member of its Youth League. As the Afrikaner nationalists of the National Party started implementing apartheid policies in South Africa in 1948 Nelson Mandela he became a real leader in the ANC movement as a force opposing that tendency

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Here is a picture of Jean Bertrand Aristide with Nelson Mandela. The African Icon Nelson Mandela joined the African National Congress in 1944 and was heavily involved in popular resistance against the ruling National Party's apartheid policies after 1948.

After his political party, the ANC, was banning of in 1960, Nelson Mandela moved to the military wing within the ANC. Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962 and sentenced. Later on, on June 12, 1964, Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment.

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Here is a picture of the former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide with the famous Nelson Mandela of South Africa. Many people have placed Aristide in the rank of Nelson Mandela for his work. He is loved by many people in Haiti, specially the mass and those who did not have voices in the past

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Here is a picture of Jean-Bertrand Aristide being considered as one of the legends in the world. In this picture, he is being compared with people such as Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, and Gandhi. He was the former president of Haiti, received three coup d'etat and was forced into exile on two occasions. The last one was in South Africa where Aristide spent seven years in exile

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