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Nelson Mandela
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Nelson Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid leader who was imprisoned for twenty-seven years before becoming the country's first democratically elected president in 1994. He shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 with F. W. de Klerk for their work ending apartheid.
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Nelson Mandela led the African National Congress.
Nelson Mandela proposed the breakthrough compromise that opened CODESA and led the ANC delegation through the negotiations.
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