My Hero

Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela was born on July 18, 1918, in Mveso, Transkei, South Africa. was a politician and activist. Becoming involved in the anti-apartheid movement in his 20s, Mandela joined the African National Congress in 1942. For 20 years, he directed a campaign of peaceful. In 1994, Mandela was inaugurated as South Africa's first black president. When Mandela was 9 years old, his father died of lung disease, causing his life to change dramatically. Mandela was given the same status and responsibilities as the regent's two other children, his son and oldest child, Justice, and daughter Nomafu. 

Mandela took classes in a one-room school next to the palace, studying English, Xhosa, history and geography. It was during this period that Mandela developed an interest in African history. He learned how the African people had lived in relative peace until the coming of the white people. According to the elders, the children of South Africa had previously lived as brothers, but white men had shattered this fellowship. While black men shared their land, air and water with whites, white men took all of these things for themselves. 

Mandela soon became actively involved in the anti-apartheid movement, joining the African National Congress in 1942. In 1991, Mandela was elected president of the African National Congress. Mandela also worked to protect South Africa's economy from collapse during his presidency. By the 1999 general election, Nelson Mandela had retired from active politics.  He continued to maintain a busy schedule, however, raising money to build schools and clinics in South Africa's rural heartland and serving as a mediator in Burundi's civil war. Mandela was diagnosed and treated for prostate cancer in 2001. In June 2004, at the age of 85, he announced his formal retirement from public life and returned to his native village of Qunu. On December 5, 2013, at the age of 95, Nelson Mandela died at his home in Johannesburg, South Africa.

 He had done a lot of incredible thing before he became the hero that he is now, he had been inspiring people for decades. Also, he had been helping people when he was in jail try to inspire the other people to be better. Mandela was helping the african people every moment and that is the reason for me to mention him as my hero. He had done revolutionary ideas and worry about the people. For me that is the essence of life: do your best and help the others.

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