Nelson Mandela 1918–2013

Notes

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born on 18 July 1918 and died on 5 December 2013. The years stored on this Echo are 1918–2013. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is the alias already on the sheet. The summary names him as an anti-apartheid leader who served as President of South Africa. The public record dates that presidency from 1994 to 1999. He was the country’s first black head of state, and the first chosen in a fully representative democratic election. From 1991 to 1997 he also served as president of the African National Congress. South Africa is named because the summary already names it. This note does not add a prison, a school, or a residence. The 1993 Nobel Peace Prize citation, which he shared, reads “for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa.” That sentence is the committee’s wording, quoted from the Nobel Prize facts page, not a line spoken in a voice on this sheet. This research sheet is the page reached by nelsonmandela.si.

External reading:

• Nelson Mandela — Wikipedia
• Nelson Mandela Foundation
• Nobel Peace Prize 1993 — facts