Nelson Mandela

Also known as Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, Mandela, Prisoner 46664, Madiba, Rolihllahla, Rolihllahla Mandela, Father of the Nation

First President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist (1918–2013)

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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African politician, lawyer, political activist, and autobiographer. He served as the President of South Africa and was a member of the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party. Mandela was also affiliated with The Elders and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His notable works include *Un ideal por el cual vivo*.

Born in Mvezo, Cape Province, South Africa, in 1918, Mandela was educated at the University of the Witwatersrand, the University of Fort Hare, the University of South Africa, and the University of London. He spoke English and Xhosa. He was married to Evelyn Mase, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, and Graça Machel, and had children Makgatho Mandela, Makaziwe Mandela, Zenani Mandela-Dlamini, and Zindzi Mandela.

Mandela was detained at Robben Island, Pollsmoor prison, and Drakenstein Correctional Centre. He died of respiratory disease on December 5, 2013, in Houghton Estate, where he also resided. He is buried in Qunu. He received one Nobel Prize and is recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection and the Nobel Peace collection.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1918
Died: 2013
Works: 134

Top works

Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold Level
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Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold
King's Pawn Four
Un ideal por el cual vivo

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Acting · Mvezo, Cape Province, South Africa

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black chief executive, and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid through tackling institutionalised racism and…

Known for

Troublemaker — Self (voice) (archive sound)2026
Fragmente/Palästina — Self (Archive Footage)2025
The Queen and the Prime Ministers — Sig selv (arkiv)2024
Her Majesty's Prime Ministers: John Major — Self2023
Franz Klammer - The Ski "Kaiser" Will Be 70 — Self (archive footage)2023
The Super Models — Self (archive footage)2023
The Wikipedia Promise — Self - Politician (archive footage)2021
Mandela's Children2019
Africa Rising — Self - Politician (archive footage)2019
The Edge of Democracy — Self (archive footage)2019

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: South Africa
Active from: 1918
Active to: 2013

has german audiobooksnon-musicianpolitician

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 2,080
Total plays: 7,519

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,510x
Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,620x
A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,787x
Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,975x
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,997x

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Quotes

“There are thousands of people who feel that it is useless and futile for us to continue talking peace and non-violence — against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people. And I think the time has come for us to consider, in the light of our experiences at this day at home, whether the methods which we have applied so far are adequate.”
“Ethiopia has always held a special place in my own imagination and the prospect of visiting attracted me more strongly than a trip to France, England and America combined. I felt I would be visiting my own genesis, unearthing the roots of what made me an African. Meeting the emperor himself would be like shaking hands with history.”
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
“I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life; I fight it now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a black man in a white man's court. This should not be.”
“I must deal immediately and at some length with the question of violence. Some of the things so far told to the Court are true and some are untrue. I do not, however, deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness, nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation, and oppression of my people by the Whites.”
“During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons will live together in harmony and with . It is an ideal . But, my lord, if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize1993
“for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa”
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Encyclopedic overview

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (/mænˈdɛlə/ man-DEL-ə, Xhosa: [xolíɬaɬa mandɛ̂ːla]; born Rolihlahla Mandela; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, statesman, and revolutionary who was the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first Black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His administration focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid by fostering racial reconciliation, a national peace accord and eventual multiracial democracy. Ideologically an African nationalist and socialist, he served as the president of the African National Congress (ANC) party from 1991 to 1997.

Mandela was born into the Thembu royal family in Mvezo, South Africa. He studied law at the University of Fort Hare and the University of Witwatersrand before working as a lawyer in Johannesburg. There he became involved in anti-colonial and African nationalist politics, joining the ANC in 1943 and co-founding its Youth League in 1944. After the National Party's white-only government established apartheid, a system of racial segregation that privileged whites, Mandela and the ANC committed themselves to its overthrow. Rising to prominence for his involvement in the 1952 Defiance Campaign and the 1955 Congress of the People, he was repeatedly arrested for seditious activities and was unsuccessfully prosecuted in the 1956 Treason Trial. Influenced by Marxism, he secretly joined the banned South African Communist Party (SACP). Although initially committed to non-violent protest, in association with the SACP he co-founded the militant uMkhonto we Sizwe in 1961 that led a sabotage campaign against the apartheid government. Following the Rivonia Trial, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for conspiring to overthrow the state.

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