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Nelson Mandela Biography in English | President of South Africa

In 1994 South Africa held its first democratic elections. Mandela was the first elected
President of South Africa. He was also the first black president of the country. His main aim
was to kill racism and he ended the apartheid rule and established a new Constitution.
After his first successful term, Mandela declined to contest for the second term and retired
from active politics. The Mandela foundation and served as a mediator in the Burundi civil
war. Nelson Mandela got the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 which he dedicated to Mahatma
Gahndi, whom he was deeply influenced from.
In 1995, he divorced his second wife. Mandela married his third wife Graça Machel, on his
80th birthday in 1998. He had 5 children.
For his gret work in the anti-apartheid movement, The United Nation General Assembly
declared Mandela´s birthday as “Mandela Day” in 2009. Due to respiratory illness, He died
on 5 December 2013 in Johannesburg, Gaunteg, South Africa at the age of 95.
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” said Nelson
Mandela.
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