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Mandela's Release From Prison 1990

Nelson Mandela was a lawyer and anti-apartheid activist from South Africa who served as President from 1994 to 1999. He was imprisoned for 27 years for conspiring to overthrow the apartheid government but was released in 1990 amid social upheaval. When news of his release reached the public, people danced in the streets and thousands came to welcome him, where he greeted them with a message of "peace, democracy and freedom for all." He went on to lead the African National Congress party to victory in the 1994 election, becoming South Africa's first black President and working to dismantle apartheid.

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Mandela's Release From Prison 1990

Nelson Mandela was a lawyer and anti-apartheid activist from South Africa who served as President from 1994 to 1999. He was imprisoned for 27 years for conspiring to overthrow the apartheid government but was released in 1990 amid social upheaval. When news of his release reached the public, people danced in the streets and thousands came to welcome him, where he greeted them with a message of "peace, democracy and freedom for all." He went on to lead the African National Congress party to victory in the 1994 election, becoming South Africa's first black President and working to dismantle apartheid.

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Mandela's release from prison 1990.

Nelson Mandela was born on July 18, 1918 and died on December
5, 2013. He was a lawyer, anti-apartheid activist, politician and
South African philanthropist who presided over his country from
1994 to 1999. He was the first black president who led the
Executive Power, and the first to be elected by universal suffrage
in their country. His government dedicated itself to dismantling
the social and political structure inherited from apartheid through
the fight against institutionalized racism, poverty and social
inequality, and the promotion of social reconciliation.
In his practice as a lawyer, he was arrested several times for
seditious activities and, as part of the board of the ANC, was
prosecuted in the Treason Trial from 1956 to 1961. Influenced by
Marxism, he secretly entered the South African Communist Party
(SACP) and was part of its central committee.
In 1962 he was arrested and charged with conspiracy to
overthrow the government, for which he was sentenced to life
imprisonment during the Rivonia Process.
He was imprisoned for 27 years, first on Robben Island and then
in Pollsmoor and Victor Verster prisons. International campaigns
advocated his release, and he was released in 1990 amid a social
upheaval in South Africa. He intervened in political negotiations
with Frederik de Klerk to abolish apartheid and establish the
general elections of 1994, in which he led the ANC to triumph at
the polls.
When the news of his release reached the ears of the population
throughout the country, people began to dance in the streets
and thousands of people came to shout his name and claim him
at a rally in Cape Town. Faced with an impressive mass of people,
eager to attend their first appearance in public in almost three
decades, Mandela began his speech in this way: "I greet you all in
the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all."

Although he gave continuity to the liberal policies of previous


governments, in his administration measures were implemented
for land reform, the fight against poverty and the expansion of
health services.
In South Africa he is considered a figure of respect. He is also
called the Father of the South African Nation.

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