NELSON MANDELA

‘THE END OF APARTHEID’

PRESENTED BY

1) SHWETA KULKARNI
2) AISHWARYA SONAWANE
3) PRANALI JADHAV
4) ANKITA MORE
 INTRODUCTION

 Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born in

Transkei, South Africa on July 18, 1918.
 His father was Hendry Mphakanyiswa of the Tembu
Tribe.
 He was revolutionary south african leader who was
against apartheid.
 He was the president of south africa from 1994 to
1999.
 INTRODUCTION

 He was the first black south african to hold office,

and first to be elected in a representative, multiracial
election.
 His government focused on ending the ruthless
legacy of apartheid.
 He was the president of the African National
Congress (ANC) from 1991 to 1997.
 EDUCATION

Nelson Mandela was educated at university college of

Fort Hare’
He studied law at university Witwatersrand.
 JOINING OF ANC

 He joined the African National Congress in 1994 and

was engaged in resistance against the ruling national
party’s apartheid policies after 1948.
 He went on trial for treason on 1956 to 1961 and was
acquitted in 1961.
 FORMATION OF
‘UMKHONT O WE SIZWE’

 Umkhonto We Sizwe (abbreviated as MK)

translated as Spear of the Nation.
 It was the armed wing of the ANC co-founded by
Nelson Mandela, which fought against the south
african government.
 MK launched its first Guerrilla
attacks against government
installations on 16 Dec 1961.
 ARREST CASE

 Mandela was arrest in 1962 and sentenced to five

years imprisonment with hard labour.
 Many fellow leaders of the ANC and the Umkhonto
We Sizwe are arrested.
 He was released on Feb 11, 1990.
 After his release, he plunged himself wholeheartedly
into his life’s work, striving to attain the goals he and
others had set out almost four decades earlier and
that was too end apartheid and discrimination.
 ACHIEVEMENTS

 He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize together with

FW De Klerk and then President of South Africa in
1993.
 The following year South Africa held its first
multiracial election and Mandela was elected as its
first black president.
 In 1999, his presidency of South Africa came to an
end.
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