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Work for the peaceful end of apartheid and for a new democratic South Africa
Shared with: F. W. de Klerk (South Africa)
Mandela co-founded the ANC Youth League and later its armed wing. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the 1964 Rivonia Trial, he spent 27 years in prison, mostly on Robben Island. After his release in 1990 he negotiated with President F. W. de Klerk to end apartheid peacefully, leading to South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994.
Anti-apartheid leader imprisoned for 27 years (1962–1990), who became South Africa's first Black president in 1994.