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Mandela, Nelson(dictionary)
Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount(encyclopedia)
Air Nelson(tourism)
Nelson(dictionary)
Nelson, Don(medicine)
Nelson syndrome(medicine)
Nelson (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Nelson, Willie(encyclopedia)
Air Nelson flights(tourism)

Mandela, Nelson (oh)



(1918- ) the leader of South Africa's ANC party since 1994, and the first black President of South Africa. Mandela was in prison from 1964 to 1990 for his opposition to the country's white government. In 1993 he shared the Nobel Prize for Peace with President F. W. de Klerk after they had worked together to end the system of apartheid .