Nelson Mandela summary

The African National Congress (ANC) is a South African political party and Black nationalist organization. The party received a majority of the vote in the first election it contested, in 1994, and every one after until 2024, when its support fell to about 40 percent. It was founded in 1912 as the

Encyclopædia Britannica’s first biography of Nelson Mandela appeared in print in 1965, published in the Britannica Book of the Year prepared by Britannica’s London office: This biography was imprecise in places—Mandela, for example, was born in the village of Mvezo, in the Umtata district of the

F.W. de Klerk was a politician who as president of South Africa (1989–94) brought the apartheid system of racial segregation to an end and negotiated a transition to majority rule in his country. He and Nelson Mandela jointly received the 1993 Nobel Prize for Peace for their collaboration in

Nobel Prize, any of the prizes (five in number until 1969, when a sixth was added) that are awarded annually from a fund bequeathed for that purpose by the Swedish inventor and industrialist Alfred Nobel. The Nobel Prizes are widely regarded as the most prestigious awards given for intellectual