Nelson Mandela's 100th Birth Anniversary Today
Former president Nelson Mandela's hundredth birthday today. If this is alive, then this great leader would have kept his feet for a hundred years. This legendary leader of the anti-racial movement was born in 1918 in the small town of Amezeu, South Africa.
South Africa's Houghton State of Johannesburg, on 5 December 2013, millions of people in the world did not cry, and Nelson Mandela left the country.
After the death, the rebel leader, who is still immortal in the world, is still immortalized. Mandela was the democratically elected first president of South Africa.
He served as the President from 1994 to 1999. Earlier, Mandela actively participated in the anti-apartheid movement as the leader of the African National Congress Umkhanto Wei Sijawe.
In 1962, he arrested the South African racist government and sentenced him to life imprisonment for several offenses. Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years. Most of the time he was on Robben Island in South Africa.
He was released on 11 February 1990. Then he took part in the peace talks with his White South African government for the party.
As a res
ult of this, apartheid ended in South Africa and democracy was established in 1994 with the participation of people of all castes. In South Africa, Mandela is known as Madiba, given by its tribe.
His strong struggle against racism gave him recognition as a special envoy of human rights worldwide and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Peace.
On the occasion of Nelson Mandela's centennial anniversary, people around the world will remember him in reverence and love. The United Nations recognizes this day as Nelson Mandela International Day.
A huge rally was organized in Johannesburg, South Africa. Former US President Barack Obama will lead this.