Nelson Mandela died on Thursday, 5th December 2013 at
the age of 95.
He was a freedom fighter against apartheid in South Africa which is the
separation between black and white people. He was a radical fighter in his
youth and was sent to prison, where they kept him for 27 years. After he was
set free he became the president of South Africa because he was a hero
for black and whites.
He tried to change the system of racial segregation
peacefully without violence and was accepted by his own people and by most
leaders in the whole world.
In South
Africa they called him Madiba which was his
tradicional name and when he was older many people only called him Tata, which
means “father” in their dialect.
He has been ill during his last years, not appearing
so often in public as before.
I think Nelson Mandela is one of the people we should
all lean from. When he left prison he did not want revenge because he knew that
it would only cause more civil wars. He was a very peaceful person like for
example Mahatma Gandi.
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