November 22, 2025
Famous for disrupting South Africa’s racist apartheid government, Nelson Mandela was given the name Rolihlahla at birth, a Xhosa term that roughly translates to “troublemaker.”
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Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) was a South African black nationalist who spent 27 years in prison for fighting against the country’s discriminatory apartheid system of racial segregation. His negotiations in the early 1990s with South African Pres. F.W. de Klerk helped bring an end to apartheid and
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