Nelson Mandela - The Legend

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Nelson Mandela, the prisoner-turned-president who reconciled South Africa after the end of apartheid, died on Thursday, December 5, 2013. Mandela was 95.


NELSON MANDELA – THE LEGEND

Freedom fighter, prisoner, moral compass and South Africa's symbol of the struggle against racial oppression. That was Nelson Mandela who emerged from prison after 27 years to lead his country out of decades of apartheid.

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Mandela became president of the African National Congress Youth League in 1951.



Mandela in the office of Mandela & Tambo, a law practice set up in Johannesburg by Mandela and Oliver Tambo to provide free or affordable legal representation to black South Africans.



Mandela married his second wife, social worker Winnie Madikizela, in 1958. At the time, he was an active member of the African National Congress and had begun his lifelong commitment to ending segregation in South Africa.


NELSON MANDELA – THE LEGENDNelson and Winnie Mandela raise their fists to salute a cheering crowd upon his 1990 release from Victor Verster Prison. He was still as upright and proud, he would say, as the day he walked into prison 27 years before.


NELSON MANDELA – THE LEGENDA jubilant South African holds up a newspaper announcing Mandela's release from prison at an ANC rally in Soweto on February 11, 1990. Two days later, more than 100,000 people attended a rally celebrating his release from jail.



Mandela and Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda arrive at an ANC rally on March 3, 1990, in Lusaka, Zambia. Mandela was elected president of the ANC the next year.



After his release in 1990, Mandela embarked on a world tour, meeting U.S. President George H.W. Bush at the White House in June


NELSON MANDELA – THE LEGENDAt his Soweto home on July 18, 1990, Mandela blows out the candles on his 72nd birthday cake. It was the first birthday he celebrated as a free man since the 1960s.


NELSON MADELA – THE LEGENDMandela and his wife react to supporters during a visit to Brazil at the governor's palace in Rio De Janeiro, on August 1, 1991.



South African President Frederik de Klerk, right, and Mandela shared a Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 for their work to secure a peaceful transition from apartheid rule.


NELSON MANDELA – THE LEGENDMandela votes for the first time in his life on March 26, 1994.


NELSON MANDELA – THE LEGENDOn April 27, 1994, a long line of people snake toward a polling station in the black township of Soweto outside of Johannesburg in the nation's first all-race elections.


NELSON MANDELA – THE LEGENDMandela in Mmabatho for an election rally on March 15, 1994.


NELSON MANDELA – THE LEGENDMandela was elected president in the first open election in South African history on April 29, 1994. He's pictured here taking the oath at his inauguration in May, becoming the nation's first black president.



Mandela sits with his wife, Graca Machel, and his grandchildren at his son's funeral on January 15, 2005. He disclosed that his son, Makgatho Lewanika Mandela, had died of AIDS and said the disease should be given publicity so people would stop viewing it as extraordinary.


NELSON MANDELA - THE LEGENDThe "46664 Arctic" benefit concert was held in Tromso, Norway, on June 11, 2005. 46664 was Mandela's identification number in prison. Here, artists who performed at the event surround him.


NELSON MANDELA – THE LEGENDFormer U.S. President Bill Clinton leans down to whisper to former South African President Nelson Mandela during a visit to the Nelson Mandela Foundation on July 19, 2007, in Johannesburg.


NELSON MANDELA – THE LEGENDMandela meets in 2009 with international children as part of his 46664 Foundation.












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