Busto Nelson Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African activist, lawyer and politician of the 20th and 21st centuries (he was born on July 18, 1918 and died on December 5, 2013 at the age of 95) known mainly for: - Fight peacefully against racial segregation in South Africa. - Establish a democratic political model in South Africa. - To be the president of the Republic of South Africa between 1994 and 1999. In 1948, a group of radical nationalists arrived at the government of South Africa. They brought with them a regime of racial segregation in which the supremacy of the white man prevailed. Mandela, far from succumbing to the racist absolutism of the government, organized a rebellion of non-violent civil disobedience from within the ANC. After 10 years of untiring struggle against apartheid, the ruling leaders wanted to put an end to the ANC resistance and illegalize the party, leading Mandela and the other activists to organize an armed struggle from the underground. On August 5, 1962, Nelson Mandela was arrested for conspiracy against the government (among other crimes) and would spend the next 27 years in jail. During the 1980s, the increase in racial violence and the development of global society cataloged the growing number of protests against the South African regime under the name of Mandela as a standard. The government, faced with the internal and international pressure to which it was subjected, decided to release Mandela on February 11, 1990. Three months after his release he was elected to lead the ANC and from his position of power he fought for the democracy, getting the first democratic elections in the history of South Africa with him as the winner in 1994, becoming the first black president of South Africa