5. Nelson Mandela

The leader of Anti Apartheid movement


Nelson Mandela was born in a village near Umtata in the Transkei on the 18 july 1918. During the whole of the fifties, Mandela was the victim of various forms of repression. He was banned, arrested and imprisoned. For much of the latter half of the 0. Decade, he was one of the accused in the Massive Betrayal Trial. At great cost to his legal practice and his political work.
Nelson Mandela accepted the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of all South Africans who suffered and sacrificed so much to bring peace and freedom.