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Joined the ANC with other young africans and formed a youth league to help start and transform it into a masss movement, getting strength from millions of rurals and people without a voice.
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arrested and charged with treason along with 150 others, after what was initally a non viollent resistance
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Sent to Robben Island prison for life after politcal offenses and including sabotage were charged against him. Spent 27 years of his life sentence in that prison.
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Freed on this day at 4.17pm, Mandela walked through the gates of prison into a land of freedom, he raised his right fist in the air and said 'I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom.'
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President of South Africa in 1994-1999
