Nelson Mandela

turning point

• In 1944  helped found the ANC Youth League, whose Programme of Action was adopted by the ANC in 1949

• was instrumental in pushing the ANC into more direct action such as the 1952 Defiance Campaign and later acts of sabotage

•  had to resign from the ANC and work underground.

• 1962 had been arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in the notorious Robben Island prison. 

Achievement

•  was as the first democratically elected State President of South Africa on.

• In 1993 Nelson Mandela was awarded Nobel Prize.