NELSON MANDELA

“It always seems impossible until it’s done - Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela was born on the 18^th July of 1918 in Mvezo, El Cabo.

He studied law at the University of Fort Hare. He joined to the African National Congress (ANC), an organization that did campaigns against discrimination and exploitation of the black people of South Africa.

He organized manifestations against the system of racial segregation called apartheid but the government of South Africa killed the people that had gone to this manifestations. For this reason, Mandela create an organization called Umkhonto we Siwze.

One year later, Mandela was captured in Johannesburg and submitted him to life sentence when he was 46 years old, but his followers and governments of other countries started requiring his liberty and the abolition of the racial segregation.

In 1990, the president Frederik de Klerk gives freedom to Nelson Mandela, when he was 71 years old. A few months later they negotiate the elimination of the apartheid and in 1991 it was officially eliminated. For this, all of them received the Nobel of Peace award in 1993.

In 1994, Mandela was chosen for the president of South Africa and governed since 1999. In these years, he helped with the reconciliation of the South African people.

In 2012, his health got worse because he had a pulmonary infection. In June of 2013 his health was in critical state and on the 5^th of December of 2013 Nelson Mandela died in Johannesburg.

 Montse Roca and Anna Robert