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Birth of Madela
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Nelson Mandela
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Joined the ANC
Joined the ANC with other young africans and formed a youth league to help start and transform it into a masss movement, getting strength from millions of rurals and people without a voice. -
Arrested
arrested and charged with treason along with 150 others, after what was initally a non viollent resistance -
Arrested again and sent to Robben Island
Sent to Robben Island prison for life after politcal offenses and including sabotage were charged against him. Spent 27 years of his life sentence in that prison. -
Freed from life sentence in prison
Freed on this day at 4.17pm, Mandela walked through the gates of prison into a land of freedom, he raised his right fist in the air and said 'I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom.' -
Presidented
President of South Africa in 1994-1999
