Mandela had been a figurehead for black South Africans to rally behind - while for many in the West, the ANC, of which he was the leader, was viewed as a terrorist organisation. de Klerk, who freed him, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 “for their work to peacefully end apartheid and for laying the foundation for a new democratic South Africa". Mandela, and South African President F.W. Under his leadership, South Africa drafted and passed a constitution widely praised for upholding the rights of all, becoming one of the first to explicitly endorse gay rights.Ī Truth and Reconciliation Commission took South Africa on a compelling, painful path to air the injustices perpetrated during the more than 40 years of apartheid rule. Just over four years after his release, Mandela was elected president in the country's first all-race elections, leading South Africa out of decades of violently imposed discrimination. On Tuesday, current President Cyril Ramaphosa, who held the microphone during Mandela's address, was set to speak to the country on the “speech that birthed a nation”. Nelson Mandela's prison letters chart his heartbreaking struggle behind bars Long Walk to Freedom is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, a book destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of historys greatest figures. When Trevor met Nelson - watch the iconic interview as the world remembers Nelson Mandela
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