FACE OF SPY

Full name: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
Date of Birth: 18th July 1918
Place of Birth: Mvezo, Cape Province, South Africa
Nicknames: Madiba, Dalinbunga

 

Brief Biography
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Madiba) was born on 18th July 1918 in Mvezo, Cape Province of South Africa to the Thembu Royal family. He studied law at the University of Fort Hare and the University of the Witwatersrand. He worked as a lawyer in Joannesburg before joining politics.
 

 

Madiba became involved in anti-colonial and African Nationalist politics, joining the African National Congress (ANC) and co-founding its youth league in 1944. After the National party’s White-only government established apartheid, he and his party committed themselves to opposition activities which led to him serving 27years jail term from 1962 to 1990 in the Robben Island, Pollmoor and Victor Verster prisons.

He led the ANC to victory in the 1994 multiracial general elections in South Africa and became president of South Africa in the same year. He ruled for just a single term of four years and retired from active politics to spend more time with his family.
He died on 5th December 2013 after suffering from a respiratory infection. He is regarded as the man after the heart of all Africans. 18th of July every year has since his death been set aside to celebrate his iconic life.