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In April 1994 the Mandela-led ANC won South Africa’s first elections by universal suffrage, and on May 10 Mandela was sworn in as president of the country’s first multiethnic government.
He established in 1995 the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), which investigated human rights violations under apartheid, and he introduced housing, education, and economic development initiatives designed to improve the living standards of the country’s black population.
In 1996 he oversaw the enactment of a new democratic constitution. Mandela resigned his post with the ANC in December 1997, transferring leadership of the party to his designated successor, Thabo Mbeki.
Mandela did not seek a second term as South African president and was succeeded by Mbeki in 1999. After leaving office Mandela retired from active politics but maintained a strong international presence as an advocate of peace, reconciliation, and social justice, often through the work of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, established in 1999.
Mandela rejected racism.
Mandela never renounced his objectives
Nelson Mandela always fight to benefit the people, for justice.
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Jailed in Johannesburg's Marshall Square prison, he was charged with inciting workers' strikes and leaving the country without permission.
He was 27 years in prison.
Mandela studied by correspondence through the external program at the University of London, obtaining the degree of Bachelor of Laws.
South African Secret Service prepared to assassinate Mandela in 1969 under the guise of a recapture.
But British intelligence learned of the plot and foiled the operation.
The local and international pressure on the South African government to let Mandela released, were notorious, and in 1989. When President Botha suffered a stroke and he was replaced by Frederik Willem de Klerk.
De Klerk announced Mandela's release in February 1990.
In February 1985, President Botha offered Mandela conditional release in return for renouncing armed struggle
Mandela rejected the tender
The Nelson Mandela Foundation, now the Nelson Mandela Centre for Memory, has educated and brought people together to combat HIV and AIDS, just as Madiba united a country to topple apartheid. The foundation’s 46664 campaign (named for his prison-issued number on Robben Island) launched a series of high-profile concerts to capture the attention of youth and inspire a new generation dedicated to social justice and ending the AIDS epidemic.
Mandela has financed various HIV/AIDS projects through the Nelson Mandela Foundation and Nelson Mandela Children's Fund — ranging from scientific surveys to programmes for AIDS orphans. “Let us give publicity to HIV/AIDS and not hide it, because the only way of making it appear to be a normal illness, just like TB [tuberculosis], like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of HIV,” Mandela said shortly after his son's death in an article published on CBS News Worldwide.
After his retirement, Mandela admitted that he may have failed his country by not paying more attention to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Mandela has since spoken out on several occasions against the AIDS epidemic
Born on July 18, 1918 in Mvezo, Cape Province, South Africa
He was the first black South African to hold the office, and the first elected in a fully representative, multiracial election
and in 2004, spoke at the XV International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, Thailand
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First black president of South Africa (1994–99)
and he was briefly hospitalised in Pretoria.
In April 1994 the Mandela-led ANC won South Africa’s first elections by universal suffrage, and on May 10 Mandela was sworn in as president of the country’s first multiethnic government.
"What freedom am I being offered while the organisation of the people [ANC] remains banned?
Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts