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he was born July 18, 1918, Mvezo, South Africa
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From 1920 to 1922, Gandhi started the Non-Cooperation Movement. At the Kolkata session of the Congress in September 1920, Gandhi convinced other leaders of the need to start a non-co-operation movement in support of Khilafat as well as for dominion status. -
Mandela drafted the "M Plan", a simple commonsense plan for organisation on a street basis so that ANC volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilise them.
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Nelson Mandela Helped Form the ANC Youth League.is a part of the African National Congress for younger people. It was founded in 1944 by Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu. They created the foundation to put an end to apartheid in Africa.
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was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s -
Mau Mau revolt or Kenya Emergency, was a war in the British Kenya Colony between the Kenya Land and Freedom Army, also known as the Mau Mau, and the British -
He established the first black law firm in South Africa (Mandela and Tambo) in 1953, taking on cases involving human rights abuses and those involving the excessive use of force.
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The Algerian War was a major armed conflict between France and the Algerian National Liberation Front from 1954 to 1962, which led to Algeria winning its independence from France. -
On 6 March 1957, the Gold Coast (now known as Ghana) gained independence from Britain. Ghana became a member of the Commonwealth of Nations and was led to independence by Kwame Nkrumah who transformed the country into a republic, with himself as president for life. -
A nationalist movement in the Belgian Congo demanded the end of colonial rule: this led to the country's independence on 30 June 1960. Minimal preparations had been made and many issues, such as federalism, tribalism, and ethnic nationalism, remained unresolved. -
The Cambodian Civil War was a civil war in Cambodia fought between the forces of the Communist Party of Kampuchea against the government forces of the Kingdom of Cambodia and, after October 1970, the Khmer Republic, which had succeeded the kingdom. -
he won won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1993
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Mandela gave a speech urging South Africans to rise against apartheid. also a political coalition of African, Indian, mixed-race, and white groups under the ANC umbrella, called the Congress Alliance, issued a document called the Freedom Charter, which created suffrage and rights.
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On 10 May 1994, after three and a half centuries of colonialism and apartheid, Nelson Mandela became South Africa's first democratically elected president.
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December 5, 2013, Houghton Estate, Johannesburg, South Africa