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    Nelson Mandela was a man of honor. A man who sacrificed his life for the betterment of others. He was born July 18‚ 1918 in South Africa. He grew up in a segregated country. He later became an activist against apartheid. He protested and paraded the country. He got arrested and spends the next 27 years in prison. He still did not give up the fight against apartheid. After getting out of prison he became the first democratic elected president of South Africa from 1991 to 1997. After his presidency

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    ENELSON MANDELA FACTFILE: Full Name: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Born: 18th July 1918‚ Mvezo‚ South Africa Family Life: Nelson Mandela was born on July 18‚ 1918‚ into a royal family of the Xhosa-speaking Thembu tribe in the South African village of Mvezo‚ where his father‚ Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa (c. 1880-1928)‚ served as chief. His mother‚ Nosekeni Fanny‚ was the third of Mphakanyiswa’s four wives‚ who together bore him nine daughters and four sons. After the death of his father in 1927

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    Nelson Mandela was born on July 18‚ 1918‚ in Transkei‚ South Africa. Becoming actively involved in the anti-apartheid movement in his 20s‚ Mandela joined the African National Congress in 1942. For 20 years‚ he directed a campaign of peaceful‚ non-violent defiance against the South African government and its racist policies. In 1993‚ Contents Synopsis Early Life Mandela’s Imprisonment Prison Release and Presidency Retirement and Later Career In Recent Years Personal

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    Nelson Mandela By: Abdullah Imran Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African politician and activist.born on July 18‚ 1918 in Mvezo‚ Umtata (now Mthatha)‚ Transkei‚ South Africa. He had thirteen siblings by the same father‚ and two mothers. His parents were Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa and Nosekeni Nonqaphi . His given name was Rolihlahla‚ a Xhosa name meanimg pulling branch of a tree or informally‚ Trouble maker. On April 27‚ 1994‚ he was made the first President

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    Nelson Mandela speech Nelson Mandela‚ was a South African man (later on to be Politician/Human rights leader) born on the 18th of July in 1918 in Transkei‚ South Africa. He was the first ever black South African to become president of the country. His goals were for Black people‚ Indians and white people all to have equal rights‚ not just white people. He had plans to taking over the corrupt white government‚ the Apartheid. He joined in 1944 and was a part of the Armed National Congress (ANC). After

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    How did Nelson Mandela aid the downfall of Apartheid? Nelson Mandela was born in 1918 in South Africa to a Thembu chief. Thirty years later he would start one of the most famous movements of our time‚ the anti-apartheid movement. Apartheid was an official policy of forced segregation of the races and was implemented in 1948 by the National Party when it came to power in South Africa. Under apartheid‚ all black citizens were forced to carry passbooks stating all of their information. Two laws‚

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    Nelson Mandela against Apartheid Apartheid was the policy in South Africa where black citizens were discriminated and mistreated because of their race. Segregation was going on for a long time before apartheid began. In 1913‚ three years after the country’s independence‚ South Africa created a land act that forced black citizens to live in reserves‚ and for only white citizens to be allowed to work as sharecroppers. On July 18‚ 1918‚ Nelson Mandela was born in Mvezo‚ a town in South Africa. 30

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    Background On 18th July 1918‚ in Mvezo in the Transkei‚ Rolihlahla Mandela was born. He would later become better known as Nelson‚ given the Christian name by his primary school teacher. Nelson being the son of a Chief and having been taken in by the regent Jongintaba after his fathers death would go on to receive an education at Clarkebury Boarding Institute in Engcobo then Wesleyan College at Fort Beaufort. When he was 21 years old (1939) he enrolled at University College of Fort Hare in Alice

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    Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela is recognized for his leadership as a peacemaker and for distinctive aspects of his peacemaking practices all throughout the world. He was the leader of one of the most incredible political transitions in human history. Mandela is known as one of the great moral and political leaders of our times; an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa‚ won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country.

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    Ken Blanchard Susan Fowler Laurence Hawkins To my mother‚ Dorothy Blanchard‚ who taught me how to take control of my own life before someone else did. —Ken Blanchard To my wonderful parents‚ Phyllis and Dick‚ who helped me realize the magic of self leadership by encouraging my curiosity‚ independence‚ and love of learning. —Susan Fowler To my three daughters‚ Genevieve‚ Ashley‚ and Juliet‚ with the fondest hope that they may be beneficiaries of these self leadership concepts and tools

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