Nelson mandela

Nelson mandela

-Nelson rolihlahla mandela is born on 18 july 1918 Mvezo South Africa. He was a lawyer, politician and a statesman. He helped bring an end to apartheid and stood with human rights. A member of the African national congress beginning in the 1940s. And was the first black president in South Africa. Within his actions he landed in prison for nearly three decades, he and eight other African national congress leaders were convicted of sabotage and conspiracy to overthrow the government and where sentenced to life in jail in 1964.

Apartheid is when they used to find a difference between white people and black people it is like racism, like in there the non white south africans were forced to live in separate areas from whites and use separate public facilities. They even had specific areas to live in.

So Nelson mandela put an end to this and that is why he is really famous.