Winnie Mandela

In 1952, after joining the Defiance Campaign against the apartheid policies of the Afrikaner nationalists, Nelson Mandela became the President of ANC's Transvaal Branch. Mandela then used to work as a lawyer and was repeatedly arrested for conducting mutinous activities. From 1956 to 1961, Mandela was prosecuted along with ANC leadership in Treason Trial but later he was found to be not guilty of the charges.

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In 1994 Nelson Mandela became the President of South Africa after the first multiracial elections that were held in the country. He attempted to get rid of ethnic tensions through the formation of Government of National Unity. He was formed Truth and Reconciliation Commission for proper investigation into the human rights abuses that occurred in the past. He picked up the liberal economic policy of the previous government and made improvements to it in fields of healthcare, poverty combat and land reforms.

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