Nelson Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 - 1999. He was the country’s first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. He studied law at the University of Fort Hare and the University of the Witwatersrand before working as a lawyer in Johhanesburg. There he became involved in anti-colonial and African nationalist politics, joining the ANC in 1943 and co-finding its Youth League in 1944. He was repeatedly arrested for seditious activities and was unsuccessfully prosecuted in the 1956 Treason Trial.
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When Mandela studied at the University of Witwatersrand, he was the only
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When Mandela studied at the University of Witwatersrand, he was the only