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In 1943, Nelson Mandela joined ANC(African National Congress) and co-founded its youth division, ANCYL(African National Congress Youth League). Mandela and numerous young activist began to advocate for mass campaign against apartheid.

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Apartheid separated the South African population into four racial groups: white, black, colored, and indians. Strict residential, economic, and social segregation were enforced on the basis of these four racial categories.

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Nelson Mandela was the anti-apartheid revolutionary. Apartheid was first put into place by the europeans who first colonized what is now South Africa.

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Chris Hani was assassinated by a white man. Hani was a leader of the South African Communist Party. The situation was triggering a widespread demonstration against the de Klerk government. Mandela, recently out of prison, had the guts to call for peace when people wanted revenge, and stood up for his rights.

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Mandela took charge and could see that South Africa’s system of apartheid would not survive into the future. From his prison cell, he strategically assessed his moves and anticipated reactions.

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Nelson Mandela: Civil Rights Activist & President Of South Africa | Biography

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Mandela stood out among prisoners and guards as a man of principle and dignity, willing to sacrifice his life for his beliefs. Despite harsh prison life, Mandela assemble energy to challenge his keepers.

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Mandela served as the president for South Africa, and he was the first black president that was fully democratic. He served from 19994-1999.

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Nelson began undergoing initiation which would get him into Clarkebury Boarding Institute in Engcobo(1934). He then goes onto attend Healdtown, the Wesleyan College at Fort Beaufort(1937). And After that he proceeds to attend  University College of Fort Hare, in Alice(1939). He was later expelled for protesting on campus.

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In 1941, Mandela escapes an arranged marriage; then he becomes a security guard at a mine. And soon after the security job he starts working at the law firm Witkin, Sidelsky & Eidelman.