He was put in jail for 27 years for trying to stop apartheid (a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against people who are not Whites) apartheid definition: wordnetweb.princeton.edu/...
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Nelson Mandela - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela ( ; born 18 July 1918 in Transkei, South Africa) is a former President of South Africa, the first to be elected in a fully representative democratic election, who...
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After a quarter century in jail, Nelson Mandela, the leader of the South African African National Congress, ... I therefore place the remaining years of my life in your hands. ... I pay tribute to the many religious communities who carried the campaign for justice forward when the organizations of our people were silenced.
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Liberation - a "Journal of Democratic Discussion" - was published in Johannesburg from 1953 to 1959, with D. Tloome as editor. Nelson Mandela wrote a number of articles for this journal. ... Rachel Musi is fifty-three years of age. She and her husband had lived in Krugersdorp for thirty-two years. Throughout this period,
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A petition sponsored by Sunday Post soon received over 86,000 signatures and was supported by many organisations and leaders of opinion. A Release Nelson Mandela Committee was formed in the same month with Mrs. Nokukhanya Lutuli (wife of the late Chief Albert Lutuli) as patron.
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www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/aam/prisoner.html
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Ten years after Nelson Mandela walked out of prison on Robben Island, and seven months after stepping down ... On his release from jail 10 years ago tomorrow, ... Mandela donated a third of his presidential salary to the fund during his five years in office. Many business executives matched his example and some bettered it.
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The Nelson Mandela Foundation contributes to the making of a just society by promoting the vision and work of its Founder and convening dialogue around critical social issues. ... Celebrating Nelson Mandela's 91st year...
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Nelson Mandela’s time in prison, which amounted to almost 27 years, was marked by many small and large events which played a crucial part in shaping the personality and attitudes of the man who was to become the first President of a democratic South Africa. ... Nelson Mandela never wavered in his devotion to democracy,
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After 27 years in prison, Nelson Mandela negotiated the dismantling of the apartheid regime in South Africa, ... When later on speaking of his release from prison, Nelson Mandela said: "I was helped when preparing for my release by the biography of Pandit Nehru, who wrote of what happens when you leave jail.
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