Nelson Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and politician who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was imprisoned for 27 years for opposing apartheid but emerged from prison to successfully negotiate an end to apartheid and run for the presidency in the first free election in 1994. The document highlights Mandela's journey from anti-apartheid activist to his election and term as the first black President of South Africa, establishing him as a global symbol of reconciliation, forgiveness, and democracy.

1. UDGAM SALUTES A LEGEND
"The greatest glory of living lies not in never
falling, but in rising every time you fall."
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2. The Evolution Of Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela,
the prisonerturned-president
who reconciled
South Africa after
the end of
apartheid, died on
Thursday,
December 5,
2013. Mandela
was 95.
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3. 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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4. NELSON MANDELA – THE LEGEND
Mandela became president of the African
National Congress Youth League in 1951.
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5. NELSON MANDELA – THE LEGEND
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.
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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.
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Nelson 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.
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A 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.
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9. NELSON MANDELA – THE LEGEND
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.
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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
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11. NELSON MANDELA – THE LEGEND
At 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.
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12. NELSON MADELA – THE LEGEND
Mandela and his wife react to supporters
during a visit to Brazil at the governor's
palace in Rio De Janeiro, on August 1,
1991.
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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.
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14. NELSON MANDELA – THE LEGEND
Mandela votes for the
first time in his life on
March 26, 1994.
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On April 27,
1994, a long
line of people
snake toward
a polling
station in the
black
township of
Soweto
outside of
Johannesbur
g in the
nation's first
all-race
elections.
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16. NELSON MANDELA – THE LEGEND
Mandela in Mmabatho for an election rally
on March 15, 1994.
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17. NELSON MANDELA – THE LEGEND
Mandela 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.
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18. NELSON MANDELA – THE LEGEND
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.
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19. NELSON MANDELA - THE LEGEND
The "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.
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20. NELSON MANDELA – THE LEGEND
Former 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.
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Mandela meets in 2009 with international
children as part of his 46664 Foundation.
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