Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela
The Nobel Peace Prize 1993
Co-Nobelist F.W. de Klerk
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Name: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
Birth: 18 July 1918, Qunu, South Africa
Death: 5 December 2013, Johannesburg, South Africa
Residence at the time of the award: South Africa
Award: “for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa.”
Award: “for work regarding peaceful termination of apartheid regime and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa.”
Nelson Mandela’s Nobel co-recipient was President Frederik Willem de Klerk who released him from prison. They had agreed to transitioning to majority rule peacefully.
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
Nobel Prize and Charity
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- Nelson Mandela founded Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund. He donated a third of his presidential salary to the Fund. It strives to change the way society treats its children and youth. This long-term vision captures the central role society plays in shaping children’s lives. Its mission is to give voice and dignity to the African child by building a rights-based movement
- In 2003, Mandela founded the Mandela Rhodes Foundation in partnership with the Rhodes Trust. Its mission is to build exceptional leadership capacity in Africa. It finds, funds and empowers young Africans who aspire towards the kind of leadership he embodied: leaders who can bridge historic divides and who use their talents for the betterment of their societies and his continent.
- In 2005, Mandela founded the Nelson Mandela Legacy Trust.
- African National Congress Youth League.
- Umkhonto we Sizwe (“Spear of the Nation”, abbreviated MK)
- As a student, Mandela helped to found a first-year students’ house committee which challenged the dominance of the second-years.