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.