Nelson Mandela brang an end to apartheid. The apartheid system in South Africa was ended through a series of negotiations between 1990 and 1993. Unilateral steps by the de Klerk government played a part as well. Nelson was a South African Activist and a former president. He joined the African National Congress party in the 1940s. Nelson was a leader of both peaceful protests and armed resistance against the white minority’s oppressive regime in racially divided South Africa. His actions landed him in prison for nearly three decades and made him the face of the antiapartheid movement both within his country and internationally. When he was released in 1990, he participated in the eradication of apartheid and in 1994 he became the first black president of South Africa. He formed a multiethnic government to supervise the country’s transition. After retiring from politics in 1999, he remained a devoted champion for peace and social justice in his own nation and around the world, until his death in 2013 at the age of 95.
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