Nelson Mandela

                               Nelson Mandela

Achievement

• Mandela  finished his degree and qualified as a Lawyer.
• In 1959 , He  opened the first Black Law firm in South Africa and was instrumental in pushing the ANC .
• Mandela was awarded Nobel Prize in 1993.

Turning points

• In 1960 , Nelson Mandela changed the whole political climate.
• In 1962, he had been arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in the notorious Robben Island prison.
• In 1994 , Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the first democratically elected State President of South Africa on and was President until June 1999.