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Who was Nelson Mandela? As specie, humanity always have had difficults and bad times, but when have been problems there were women and men who did everything to help and fight for the goodnes, one of this persons was Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela also know as Madiba and Tata, "Father of South Africa", he was born on 18 july of 1918, he spent his childhood on the village of Qunu with his mother and sisters, his Xhosa name was Rolihlahla that meaning "troublemaker" and he grew up to became exactly on that a person who fought against discrimination, segregation, poverty and violence. Nelson Mandela studied law at the University of Witwatersrand, and he was the only native african on his classes, despite the racism that exist on that time he became friend of jewish, communist european and indian students. One of things that most impact caused on the fought agains Apartheid was the Rivonia trial where eight leaders of the African National Congress including Mandela were convicted to pass life imprisonment, for this Mandela was twenty seven years in prision, 18 of them on Robben Island. He was released on 11 february 1990 after he negotiated with the President F. W. de Klerk the end of the Apartheid. This man was capable to do everything he did because when he got out from prison after 27 years he could saw that what South Africa needed was forgiveness and that everyone worked together for a better country, thanks of that he became on the first South African's President elect in a fully representative democratic election. He was a human been, may be made mistakes but he did everything he could to help his people and change that everyone knew was wrong but no one wanted to challenge.

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Who was Nelson Mandela?

As a species, humanity has always had difficulties and bad times, but when there have been problems there were women and men who did everything to help and fight for good. One of these people was Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela also know as Madiba and Tata, "Father of South Africa". He was born on July 18th of 1918. He spent his childhood on the village of Qunu with his mother and sisters. His Xhosa name was Rolihlahla, which means "troublemaker", and he grew up to become exactly one: a person who fought against discrimination, segregation, poverty and violence.

Nelson Mandela studied law at the University of Witwatersrand, and he was the only native african in his classes. Despite the racism that existed at that time he became friends with jewish, communist, european and indian students.

One of things that most impacted the fight against Apartheid was the Rivonia trial where eight leaders of the African National Congress including Mandela were convicted to pass life imprisonment. From this Mandela spent twenty seven years in prision, 18 of them on Robben Island.

He was released on February 11th 1990 after he negotiated with the President F. W. de Klerk the end of the Apartheid. This man was capable of doing everything he did because when he got out from prison after 27 years he could see that what South Africa needed was forgiveness and that everyone needed to work together for a better country. Thanks to that he became the first South African President elected in a fully representative democratic election.

He was a human been. Maybe he made mistakes but he did everything he could to help his people and change what everyone knew was wrong but no one wanted to challenge.

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