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- Of Xhosa ethnicity, Madiba, as he was affectionately called by the South African people, was born in a small village in the Transkei region, one of the “ghetto” territories created by the racist government with the aim of separating the black population from the white population. From an early age, he realized the perversity of the racist system and the need for organization of the people in the struggle against the apartheid regime that denied black people political, social and economic rights.
- NELSON MANDELA
- In 1942, already in Johannesburg, he joined the African National Congress (CNA) – a social organization created against racism and in the defense of greater civil liberties, as well as in the fight for the end of unfair sentences against the country's black population.
- Twenty years later, in 1962, appearing as one of the main leaders of the ANC, he was arrested after CIA reports to the South African police, and sentenced to five years in prison. In 1964 he was sentenced to life in prison. He was imprisoned for 27 years, during which time Mandela became so closely associated with opposition to Apartheid that the cry “Free Nelson Madiba” became the motto of anti-apartheid campaigns in many countries.
- In February 1990, at age 72, after years of internal and external pressure he was released.
- I'M FREE!!!!
- I'M THE PRESIDENT!!
- In 1994 he becomes South Africa's first black president.
- He dies in 2013 at age 85.
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