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Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid leader born into a junior branch of the Thembu royal house. A leader of the African National Congress, he was imprisoned from 1962 to 1990. After negotiating the end of apartheid he became South Africa's first democratically elected president in 1994, serving until 1999, and shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.
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