Nelson Mandela has done a lot in the areas of Abolishing Apartheid in South Africa as well as helping in the fight against the AIDS epidemic. This paper hopes to explore Mandela's life as well as the ways in which he has worked to accomplish all the things he's done.
             Rolihlahla Mandela was born on July 18, 1918 in Transkei province in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. He is one of the thirteen children his father's four wives birthed. Mandela was born into the Madiba tribe which is part of the Thembu people. Nelson comes from a past of royal ancestors. His father was a respected counselor to the Thembu royal family, and his great-grandfather was a King. Nelson
             was given this English name by his teacher on his first day of school.
             Nelson continued on with school and received good education when he decided to enter Fort Hare University. He only completed two years there before he decided to leave in order to avoid a marriage arranged for him by his guardian, Chief Jongintaba. Mandela eventually earned his B.A. and enrolled in law school. After law school Mandela joined an organization called the African National Congress. This organization was founded in 1918 in order to promote black freedom. However, Mandela found this Organization to be progressing too slowly, so he, as well as Oliver Tambo and Walter Sisulu formed the African National Congress Youth League. This more youthful, more eager group of individuals fought a harder battle. They made it more verbal that they wanted change, and they rallied actively to try and get their goal accomplished.
             In 1948 a new system of law arose. The law called Apartheid, or apartness, was a political system based solely on racial discrimination. This new system was brought to power by Daniel Malan and the African National Party which was made mostly of whites who wanted to strip all blacks of any freedom. The year after Apartheid was implemented Mandel...