NOW OPEN - Mandela: The Official Exhibition
Channel: Saint Louis Science Center
Date: 27/05/2023

NOW OPEN‼️ Mandela: The Official Exhibition at the Saint Louis Science Center.

Political prisoner. World leader. Symbol of the struggle against oppression.

- Nelson (Rolihlahla) Mandela was born in the village of Mvezo on 18 July 1918.
- Mandela studied law and became one of South Africa’s first black lawyers.
In the 1950s, he was elected leader of the youth wing of the African National - Congress (ANC) liberation movement.
- Mandela was imprisoned from 1962-1990 for treason and conspiracy against the government. He was sentenced to life in prison, but was released early when the ANC became legal again.
- In 1993, Mandela won the Nobel Prize for Peace, along with South Africa’s president at the time, F.W. de Klerk, for having led the transition from apartheid to a multiracial democracy.
- Mandela was South Africa’s first black president, ‘Father of South Africa’ from 1994-1999.

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