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NELSON MANDELA


When a man is called "Mandiba" you know he is on a whole different level. He was born in 1918, in Transkei, South Africa. It is said that he fled to Johannesburg to avoid an arranged marriage. Mandiba worked as a watchman and then a clerk as he pursues a degree in law. Activism knocks at his door and he joins the African National Congress, establishing a youth league with one Oliver Tambo and so begins the fight against apartheid. The man and seven defendants are brought before a judge in the famous Rivonia Trial. They escape the gallows but face life imprisonment. The man, after the sentence, says defiantly: “I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal that I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.” But the man doesn’t die. He spends 27 years in prison at Robben Island. As the final days of apartheid came closer, he was released. Mandiba becomes a free South Africa’s first president and won a Nobel Peace Prize in the process. On 5 December 2013 the man dies, only he didn't. The truly great ones never dies, they become an idea in all of our hearts
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