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Research Paper On Nelson Mandela

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NELSON MANDELA Nelson Mandela is one of the influence people in the 20th century politics. He was the first black president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999 and elected by fully representative democratic election. He was also a politician, an activist, fighting against HIV/AIDS in Africa, promoting global peace and South African anti apartheid revolutionary. One thing that he did for the Africans and affects the world was about to end the apartheid, a system that try to separated the races of black skin over white skin people in South Africa. Because of him right now there is no differentiate between those people again. Rolihlala Mandela or also known as Nelson Mandela was born in village of Mvezo, Transkei, South Africa on 18 July 1918. He’s the one from his family who received a formal education since childhood. Only him that completed primary studies at a local missionary school. There, his teacher gave him ‘Nelson’ for his name as part of giving African student an English name. After that, Mandela continued his secondary education at Clarkebury Boarding Institute to gain his skills to become a privy councilor. After completing his junior education in two years, he moved to Healdtown, a strict Methodist college in Fort Beaufort and left to get a higher education at the University of Fort Hare ( the first South Africa’s College for black Africans ) and studies for bachelor of arts degree but he didn’t complete his degree there because he was expelled for against

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