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The National party started racial segregation had long existed in white minority-governed South Africa.
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On 5th August 1962, Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for attempting to overthrow South Africa's apartheid rule.
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Despite strong and consistent opposition to apartheid within and outside of South Africa, its laws remained in effect for the better part of 50 years.
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Under the laws that came to be known to the world as apartheid, black people were not allowed to live near white people.
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Mandela received more than 260 awards over 40 years, most notably the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
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Nelson Mandela was the president of South Africa from 1994-1999.
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It came to an end in the early 1990s in a series of steps that led to the formation of a democratic government in 1994.
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Nelson Mandela died at the age of 95 after suffering from a prolonged respiratory infection.
