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he was born on july 18,1918  in Mvezo, El Cabo, Union of South Africa.

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He was a lawyer, activist against apartheid (it was the system of racial segregation in South Africa and Namibia), politician and South African philanthropist who presided over his country from 1994 to 1999.

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He was the first black chief executive, and the first to be elected by universal suffrage in his country. His government was dedicated to dismantling the social and political structure inherited from apartheid through the fight against , poverty and social inequality, and the promotion of social reconciliation.
As an African and Marxist nationalist, he chaired the African National Congress (ANC) between 1991 and 1997, and at the international level was secretary general of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries between 1998 and 2002.

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In his practice as a lawyer, he was arrested several times for seditious activities and, as part of the board of the ANC, was prosecuted in the Trial for Treason from 1956 to 1961.

in 1963 He was imprisoned for 27 years. International campaigns advocated for his release, and he was released in 1990 amid social upheaval in South Africa. It intervened in the political negotiations to abolish apartheid and to establish the general elections of 1994, in which it led the ANC to triumph in the polls.

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After retiring from politics, he devoted himself to charities and fighting the AIDS pandemic through the Mandela Foundation..He created the commission for truth and reconciliation to investigate the human rights violations committed in the years of apartheid.

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After suffering a prolonged respiratory infection, Nelson Mandela died on December 5, 2013 at the age of 95 years.

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He is a hero for all he has done against racism and for carrying forward to South Africa.

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Won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Lenin Peace Prize.