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Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Mandela established the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate human rights and political violations committed by both supporters and opponents of apartheid between 1960 and 1994. He also introduced numerous social and economic programs designed to improve the living standards of South Africa’s black population -
He went to jail.
Nelson Mandela spent 27 years of his life in jail because he was accused for rebellion and ilegally leaving the country. -
Free Nelson Mandela
Oliver Tambo introduced a “Free Nelson Mandela” campaign that made the jailed leader a household name and fueled the growing international outcry against South Africa’s racist regime. -
Nobel prize.
Nelson won a Nobel Prize, more than 250 prizes and recognition around the world -
First black president of Africa.
After the first general elections in which all racial groups had the right to vote, Mandela became the first black president of the Republic of South Africa. When he took his office as president, he resigned a third of the salary and created the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund. -
He used sport to unite his country
Mandela knew that the only way to get his country together was through sports, he wasn't wrong, in the 1995 Rugby World Cup he made it to the finals, when he arrived he saw around 80k people being on its majority white people, and they chored Mandela's name, in that moment he realized that he was the black people president, and white peoples too.
