Nelson Mandela An Anti-Apartheid Leader

•  Nelson Mandela was a South African anti-apatheid revolutionary, politician and philanthropist, who has served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. 

• He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election.

• His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid by tackling institutionalised racism and fostering racial reconciliation.

• African nationalist and socialist, he served as President of African National Congress (ANC) party from 1991 to 1997.

• A leader who an anti-apartheid which go against system established by National Party's white-only government (apartheid system).

• Mandela served 27 years in prson, initially on Robben Island and later in Pollsmoor Prison and Victor Verster Prison. amid growing domestic and international pressure, and with fears of a racial civil war, President F.W de Klerk released him in 1990.

• Mandela and de Klerk negotiated an end to aparthei and organised the 1994 multiracial general election in which Mandela led the ANC to victory and became president.

• Nelson Mandela was a controversial figure for much of his life. Widely regarded as an icon of democracy and social justice.

• He received more than 250 honours including the Nobel Peace Priza and became the subject of a cult of pesonality.

• He is held in deep respect within South Africa, where he is often referred to by his Xhosa clan name, Madiba, and described as the "Father of The Nation";