Biography of Nelson Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born in a village near Umtata in the Transkei, July 18, 1918 has been the President of South Africa, the first to be elected in a fully representative democratic election, who was in power from 1994 to 1999. Before his presidency, Mandela was the anti-apartheid activist and leader of the armed wing of the African National Congress, Umkhonto we Sizwe. The South African courts convicted him on charges of sabotage, as well as other crimes committed while he led the movement against apartheid.
After receiving primary education in a local mission school, Nelson Mandela was sent to Healdtown, Wesleyan secondary school of some repute where he went. Then he went to college at Fort Hare University for the Bachelor of Arts, where he was elected to the Student Representative Council. E 'was suspended from the university to join a boycott in protest. He went to Johannesburg, where he obtained his degree by correspondence, articles and conducted research on his law degree. He entered politics in earnest while studying in Johannesburg by joining the African National Congress in 1942.
In the midst of World War II, a small group of young Africans, the African National Congress, meeting under the direction of Anton Lembede. Among them, William Nkomo, Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo, R., P. Ashby MDA and Nelson Mandela. 60 members, who are all around the Witwatersrand, these young men have a difficult task of transforming the ANC into a mass movement, deriving their strength and motivation by the millions of illiterate workers in urban and rural areas, farmers in rural areas and professionals.
Mandela has received more than 250 awards over four decades, including the 1993 Nobel Prize for Peace. In November 2009, the United Nations General Assembly announced that Mandela's birthday, July 18, will be known as "Mandela Day" in honor of his contribution to world freedom.