what role has the Nelson Mandela leader in politics of the represented countries . long answer
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Nelson Mandela
OMP OM GCFR AC CC OJ GCStJ QC GCIH RSerafONPkMandela in Johannesburg on 13 May 20081st President of South AfricaIn office
10 May 1994 – 16 June 1999DeputyThabo Mbeki
F. W. de KlerkPreceded byF. W. de Klerk (State President)Succeeded byThabo Mbeki11th President of the
African National CongressIn office
7 July 1991 – 20 December 1997DeputyWalter Sisulu
Thabo MbekiPreceded byOliver TamboSucceeded byThabo Mbeki19th Secretary General of the
Non-Aligned MovementIn office
2 September 1998 – 16 June 1999Preceded byAndrés Pastrana ArangoSucceeded byThabo MbekiPersonal detailsBornRolihlahla Mandela
18 July 1918
Mvezo, Cape Province, South AfricaDied5 December 2013 (aged 95)
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South AfricaCause of deathRespiratory infectionResting placeMandela Graveyard
Qunu, Eastern Cape, South AfricaPolitical partyAfrican National CongressOther political
affiliationsSouth African Communist PartySpouse(s)Evelyn Ntoko Mase (m. 1944; div. 1958)Winnie Madikizela (m. 1958; div. 1996)Graça Machel (m. 1998)Children6 (including Makgatho, Makaziwe, Zenani and Zindziswa)ParentsNosekeni Fanny
Gadla Henry MphakanyiswaAlma materUniversity of Fort HareUniversity of LondonUniversity of South AfricaUniversity of the WitwatersrandOccupationActivistPoliticianPhilanthropistLawyerKnown forAnti-Apartheid MovementAwardsSakharov Prize (1988)Bharat Ratna (1990)Nishan-e-Pakistan (1992)Nobel Peace Prize (1993)Order of LeninPresidential Medal of Freedom(hundreds more...)Notable work(s)Long Walk to FreedomWebsitenelsonmandela.orgNickname(s)MadibaDalibunga
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (/mænˈdɛlə/[1], Xhosa: [xoliɬaˈɬa manˈdɛla]; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid by tackling institutionalised racism and fostering racial reconciliation. Ideologically an African nationalist and socialist, he served as President of the African National Congress (ANC) party from 1991 to 1997.
A Xhosa, Mandela was born to the Thembu royal family in Mvezo, British South Africa. He studied law at the University of Fort Hare and the University of the Witwatersrand before working as a lawyer in Johannesburg. There he became involved in anti-colonial and African nationalist politics, joining the ANC in 1943 and co-founding its Youth League in 1944. After the National Party's white-only governmentestablished apartheid, a system of racial segregation that privileged whites, he and the ANC committed themselves to its overthrow. Mandela was appointed President of the ANC's Transvaal branch, rising to prominence for his involvement in the 1952 Defiance Campaign and the 1955 Congress of the People. He was repeatedly arrested for seditious activities and was unsuccessfully prosecuted in the 1956 Treason Trial. Influenced by Marxism, he secretly joined the banned South African Communist Party (SACP). Although initially committed to non-violent protest, in association with the SACP he co-founded the militant Umkhonto we Sizwe in 1961 and led a sabotage campaign against the government. In 1962, he was arrested for conspiring to overthrow the state and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia Trial