https://padlet.com/ali_sami1/ksliytm26i0m A Man Who Made a Difference en-us 2020-04-06 15:24:27 UTC 2026-03-19 21:26:16 UTC hello@padlet.com ali_sami1 https://padlet.com/ali_sami1/ksliytm26i0m/wish/495082070 2020-04-06 15:26:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ali_sami1/ksliytm26i0m/wish/495082070 ali_sami1 https://padlet.com/ali_sami1/ksliytm26i0m/wish/495195940 Mandela was born in 1918 in the village of Mvezo in Umtata, in South Africa. He was the son of Henry Mphakanyiswa Mandela, a local tribal chief and royal councillor, and Nosekeni Fanny.]]> 2020-04-06 16:10:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ali_sami1/ksliytm26i0m/wish/495195940 ali_sami1 https://padlet.com/ali_sami1/ksliytm26i0m/wish/495234641 Mandela lived through the apartheid period. A period of extreme racial segregation, where black South Africans were isolated by white South Africans, the latter of which had much higher living standards ]]> 2020-04-06 16:26:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ali_sami1/ksliytm26i0m/wish/495234641 ali_sami1 https://padlet.com/ali_sami1/ksliytm26i0m/wish/495314030 Mandela later began to be involved in politics and civil rights and joined the ANC (African National Congress) of which he then became a prominent figure (at least in the South African Branch) so much so he was later arrested for it in 1956

Flag of the ANC]]> 2020-04-06 17:01:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ali_sami1/ksliytm26i0m/wish/495314030 ali_sami1 https://padlet.com/ali_sami1/ksliytm26i0m/wish/495334797 Mandela remained in prison until 1990, when he was freed by president F. W. de Klerk. When he got out of Jail he was 71]]> 2020-04-06 17:10:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ali_sami1/ksliytm26i0m/wish/495334797 ali_sami1 https://padlet.com/ali_sami1/ksliytm26i0m/wish/495355499 Mandela was later elected president of the country in 1994. He was ruling over a divided country who he needed to unite. And what better way then through sport? And so he did. He made every South African proud of the national team.

]]> 2020-04-06 17:20:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ali_sami1/ksliytm26i0m/wish/495355499 ali_sami1 https://padlet.com/ali_sami1/ksliytm26i0m/wish/495361918 Mandela was also close friends with many presidents like former Libyan president Colonel Mu’ammar Gaddafi, former president of Mozambique Robert Mugabe, former Cuban president Fidel Castro and former Syrian president Hafiz Al-Assad who aided him in the struggle against apartheid]]> 2020-04-06 17:23:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ali_sami1/ksliytm26i0m/wish/495361918