Nelson Mandela

Aktivist und Politiker, erster schwarzer Präsident Südafrikas, 1918-2013

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela war ein führender südafrikanischer Aktivist und Politiker im Jahrzehnte andauernden Widerstand gegen die Apartheid sowie von 1994 bis 1999 der erste schwarze Präsident seines Landes. Aufgrund seiner Aktivitäten gegen die Apartheidpolitik in seiner Heimat musste Mandela von 1963 bis 1990 insgesamt 27 Jahre als politischer Gefangener in Haft verbringen. Er gilt als herausragender Vertreter im Freiheitskampf gegen Unterdrückung und soziale Ungerechtigkeit. Mandela war der wichtigste Wegbereiter des versöhnlichen Übergangs von der Apartheid zu einem gleichheitsorientierten, demokratischen Staatswesen in Südafrika. 1993 erhielt er den Friedensnobelpreis.

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Mandela, Nelson

South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999; Nobel Peace Prize Winner (1918-2013). Signed postcard photograph. no place. 150 : 100 mm. With envelope and letter of transmittal.
1.800 € (72519)

Nice head and shoulders portrait of the South African politician and Nobel Prize Winner. - He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid by tackling institutionalised racism and fostering racial reconciliation. Ideologically an African nationalist and socialist, he served as President of the African National Congress (ANC) party from 1991 to 1997. A Xhosa, Mandela was born in Mvezo to the Thembu royal family.

He studied law at the University of Fort Hare and the University of the Witwatersrand before working as a lawyer in Johannesburg. There he became involved in anti-colonial and African nationalist politics, joining the ANC in 1943 and co-founding its Youth League in 1944. After the National Party's white-only government established apartheid—a system of racial segregation that privileged whites—he and the ANC committed themselves to the apartheid government's overthrow. Mandela was appointed President of the ANC's Transvaal branch, rising to prominence for his involvement in the 1952 anti-apartheid Defiance Campaign and the 1955 Congress of the People. He was repeatedly arrested for seditious activities and was unsuccessfully prosecuted in the 1956 Treason Trial. Influenced by Marxism, he secretly joined the South African Communist Party (SACP). Although initially committed to non-violent protest, in association with the SACP he co-founded the militant Umkhonto we Sizwe in 1961 and led a sabotage campaign against the government. In 1962, he was arrested for conspiring to overthrow the state and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia Trial. Mandela served 27 years in prison, initially on Robben Island, and later in Pollsmoor Prison and Victor Verster Prison. Amid international pressure and growing fear of a racial civil war, President F. W. de Klerk released him in 1990. Mandela and de Klerk negotiated an end to apartheid and organised the 1994 multiracial general election in which Mandela led the ANC to victory and became President. Leading a broad coalition government which promulgated a new constitution, Mandela emphasised reconciliation between the country's racial groups and created the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate past human rights abuses. Economically, Mandela's administration retained its predecessor's liberal framework despite his own socialist beliefs, also introducing measures to encourage land reform, combat poverty, and expand healthcare services. Internationally, he acted as mediator in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial and served as Secretary-General of the Non-Aligned Movement from 1998 to 1999. He declined a second presidential term and in 1999 was succeeded by his deputy, Thabo Mbeki. Mandela became an elder statesman and focused on charitable work, combating poverty and HIV/AIDS through the Nelson Mandela Foundation. Mandela was a controversial figure for much of his life. Although critics on the right denounced him as a communist terrorist and those on the radical left deemed him too eager to negotiate and reconcile with apartheid's supporters, he gained international acclaim for his activism. Widely regarded as an icon of democracy and social justice, he received more than 250 honours—including the Nobel Peace Prize—and became the subject of a cult of personality. He is held in deep respect within South Africa, where he is often referred to by his Xhosa clan name, Madiba, and described as the "Father of the Nation". Wikipedia..

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Mandela, Nelson

South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and politician (1918-2013). Portrait photograph signed and inscribed. No place. 14.12.2001. 200:149 mm.
4.500 € (72888/BN46985)

"To Ambassador Priscilla Jana / Best wishes to a highly competent comrade NMandela". - The South African ambassador to The Netherlands and Ireland, Priscilla Jana, was once Nelson Mandela's attorney. - With an accompanying letter from the Nelson Mandela Foundation.

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Mandela, Nelson

former President of South Africa and anti-apartheid revolutionary (1918-2013). Portrait signed together with the late German President Roman Herzog. [Bonn]. 01.12.1997. 177:237 mm.
3.500 € (73996/BN47949)

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