He was the president of South Africa in 1990 and pushed reforms that ended apartheid.
Nelson Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.
He was sent to prison on various charges for protesting South Africa’s policies of apartheid. He was released from prison by Frederik Willem De Klerk and he was inaugurated in 1994.
