Nelson Mandela is a politician of peace. He was born in Utama, Transkeie in South Africa on the 18th July 1918. Nelson was the son of the tribe’s chief and he went to a Missionary school. He fought against the white people.
From 1948 to 1990 there was an apartheid regime, that meant separate Townships for black people. At the age of 27, he moved to the capital city Pretoria and he studied law.
In 1952, he was the first black man, who opened an office as lawyer. He was a member of „ANC“ (African National Congress) that’s a group of the opposition.
In 1956 Nelson Mandela was accused and charged with high treason. Four years later the process finished with an acquittal, but the „ANC“ was prohibited. Mandela worked then under cover for the „ANC“.
1964 he was condemned to prison for life. Under pressure of the public world, President De Klerk relased Nelson Mandela in 1990 from the prison.
In 1993 Mandela was given the Nobel Prize for Peace and one year later he was the first black President of South Africa. His most important aim as President was the appeasement between the people and not his revenge.
I chose Nelson Mandela because he impressed me. He spent many years in prison, charged by the white people and he hasn’t got hatred against them. Who would sit 26 years in prison for his conviction?
He is a fighting man, he never gives up and so I admire Nelson Mandela.