NELSON MANDELA

Nelson Mandela Is the Notable Person

Nelson Mandela Is the Notable Person

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (born 1918) was a South African resistance leader who, after years of imprisonment for opposing apartheid, emerged to become the first president of a black-majority-ruled South Africa and a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Nelson Mandela was born in the small village of Mvezo in South Africa. His father was the councillor to the Chief of Thembuland, until his position was taken by Colonial authorities. The Mandela family moved to Qunu shortly after Nelson's father's degradation. His father had four wives, and among them, thirteen ...