"It always seems impossible until it's done."
~Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela was arguable the most important person during the apartheid. He started out as Rolihlahla Mandela where he was born in 18 July 1918, Qunu, South Africa , which translated to troublemaker, until the age of seven when he got the name nelson from one of his teachers gave him a new one. Before he joined the African National Congress in 1944 he went to the University College of Fort Hare and the University of Witwatersrand to study law and later become a lawyer. When he became a political rights activist he was like Malcolm X with violent tactics. He later was arrested and sentenced to 27 years of prison before F. W. De Klerk let him out. Then F. W. De Klerk stopped the apartheid system and Nelson Mandela was the first president of the Democratic South Africa. He got a nobel peace prize and shared it with F. W. De Klerk. He later died in 5 December 2013, Johannesburg, South Africa.