Nelson Mandela was a South African revolutionary political figure and activist. Universally praised for publicly spearheading opposition to apartheid, he became the country's first democratically ...

February 11, 1990 – Nelson Mandela freed from prison ... helping to forge ties between the Jewish committee and the Mandela-led ANC. August 16, 1992 – As South Africa lifts its apartheid ...

He was one of the accused in the massive Treason Trial at the end of the decade and, following the 1960 banning of the ANC, he went ... destroy apartheid." Nelson Mandela, 1959 "Monitoring Mandela ...