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Mandela joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1944. Mandela qualified as a lawyer and in 1952 set up South Africa's first black law firm with Oliver Tambo. Fearing a ban by the apartheid government, the ANC asked Mandela to make plans to ensure the party could work underground. He was arrested in 1956 and charged with treason along with 155 others. The trial lasted four-anda-half-years, and ended with him being acquitted. In 1958, he married his second wife, Winnie Madikizela
Mandela was born in the rural Transkei on July 18, 1918 into an African royal family largely dispossessed by colonising, his grandfather had been a king and his father was a chief. But himself was destined not for royalty but for revolution
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After police killed 69 protesters in Sharpeville in March 1960, the government feared retaliation, so it declared a state of emergency and then banned the ANC. The organisation formed a military wing, led by Mandela. In 1962, Mandela was arrested and tried for leaving the country illegally. In 1963, while in prison, he was charged with sabotage. He and seven others were sentenced to life in 1964 and jailed on Robben Island
Under pressure from the “Free Mandela� campaign, the international community started to tighten sanctions which had been first imposed on the apartheid regime in 1967. By 1990, the pressure led to President FW de Klerk lifting the ban on the ANC. On February 11, 1990, Mandela was freed after 27 years in prison. Crowds cheered as he and his wife, Winnie left the prison grounds. The next year, Mandela was elected ANC president at the party’s first national conference. Talks began on forming a new, multi-racial democracy
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