# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nelson-mandela
# Generated: 2026-08-31T18:40:50.334Z

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name: "Nelson Mandela"
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description: "Twenty-seven years in prison for sabotage against apartheid, then four years later: South Africa's first Black president. The gap between those two facts is where the world's attention locks."
tagline: "President of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist (1918–2013)"
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birthDate: "1918-07-18"
deathDate: "2013-12-05"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born into Thembu royalty in 1918, Mandela studied law and joined the African National Congress in 1943, co-founding its Youth League a year later. After the National Party imposed apartheid in 1948, he rose through the 1952 Defiance Campaign and the 1955 Congress of the People, arrested repeatedly for sedition. When non-violence failed, he co-founded the militant uMkhonto we Sizwe in 1961 and led a sabotage campaign until the Rivonia Trial sent him to prison for life in 1964. Released in 1990 under international pressure, he negotiated apartheid's end with President F. W. de Klerk and won the 1994 election that made him president. His administration built the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, expanded healthcare, and pursued land reform, though he kept the liberal economic framework he inherited. He served one term, declined a second, and spent his final years fighting poverty and HIV/AIDS through his foundation until his death in 2013.