Question

who was Nelson Mandela and why he was sent to jail

Answer 1

discriminatory laws were repealed.
ban on political parties and restriction on media group were lifted .
After 28 years of imprisonment nelson mandela walk as free man from the jail.
apartheid system came to be an end . paving multi racial goverment

Answer 2

Nelson Mandela 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. He was considered a national terrorist of the apartheid government.He was arrested and imprisoned in 1962, and subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment following the Rivonia Trial. Mandela served 27 years in prison in Robben Island