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2016-03-02

Nelson Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born on July 18, 1918 he was a revolutionary South African anti-apartheid politician and philanthropist, who served EATS president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. It was the directeur executive primaire black country, and the first elected non fully Democratic representative election. His government center in the dismantling of apartheid legacy through the struggle against institutionalized racism and promote raciale Reconciliation. Politically non African nationalist and Socialist Democratic president served EATS African National Congress (ANC) 1991a 1997. An international level, Mandela was Secretary General of the Non-Aligned Movement of 1999.A 1998a Xhosa born to the royal family Thembu Mandela attended Fort Hare University and the University of Witwatersrand, where he studied law. Living in Johannesburg, he became involved in the anti-colonial politics, joining the ANC and become non member of its founder Youth League. After the government of the Africains minority National Party established the apartheid - A system of racial segregation that the privileged whites - in 1948 rose to prominence in the Defiance Campaign against apartheid the ANC 1952 was named superintendent Transvaal chapter of the organization and chaired People's Congress 1955. Come work lawyer, he was arrested several times for seditious activities and with the direction of the ANC, was tried unsuccessfully in the treason trial 1956a 1961. Influenced by Marxism, who secretly s'Unio the South African Communist Party ( SACP). Although initially committed to the violent pas protest, in association with the SACP was co-founder of the militant Umkhonto we Sizwe in 1961 leading a campaign of sabotage against the government. In 1962 he was arrested, convicted of conspiracy to overthrow the state, and Condemned one life imprisonment in the Rivonia Trial.