The black activist Nelson Mandela was one of the key fighters of the white apartheid regime in South Africa. In 1962 he was captured by the police, and two years later he was condemned to life imprisonment.
Background
Nelson Mandela was born in South Africa in 1918. Growing up took place in a rural setting, where he was raised to be an advisor to a local king.
Before Mandela was inserted in the office, he was appointed to, he ran away, however, and traveled to the city of Johannesburg. There he trained for law, which was quite an unusual job for an African on the stage.
The indigenous people of South Africa had long been suppressed. Only the white minority - less than 20% of the total population - had choices and vote to parliament and similar bodies.
After World War II, the situation was even further exacerbated the non-white citizens. In 1948 came the nationalist party to power with a program that announced apartheid, which would say separation.
In subsequent years were non-whites even elementary civil rights diminished to less than minimal. Land and property expropriated without given even approximately adequate compensation.
Those who disagreed with the government's policy was anathema. It would be that they only had to move to a very limited area and never had to perform in assemblies.
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