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Nelson Mandela was born in the Eastern Cape in 1918 and trained as a lawyer before he led the campaign against apartheid. He served twenty seven years in prison, walked free in February 1990, and four years later became the first president of South Africa chosen in a vote open to all races. His birthday, July 18, is kept worldwide as Mandela Day, with people asked to give sixty seven minutes to service.

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apartheid
cape town
election
equality
freedom
lawyer
madiba
mandela
nobel prize
peace
president
prison
robben island
south africa
soweto

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Words in the Nelson Mandela word search

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mandela: Surname of South Africa's first democratically elected president.
freedom: The cause he pursued across most of his long life.
prison: He spent twenty seven years behind bars before his release.
peace: He shared the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with F.W. de Klerk.
president: He led South Africa from 1994 until 1999.
lawyer: He studied law and opened a Johannesburg practice in 1952.
apartheid: South Africa's legal system of racial separation, dismantled in the 1990s.
nobel prize: Awarded to him for peace in 1993, shared with de Klerk.
south africa: Country at the southern tip of the African continent.
equality: The aim of the movement he led against racial laws.
robben island: Prison island off Cape Town where he served eighteen years.
madiba: His Thembu clan name, used widely as a sign of affection.
soweto: Johannesburg township where he lived on Vilakazi Street.
cape town: City where he gave his first speech after release in 1990.
election: South Africa's first vote open to all races came in April 1994.
activist: Someone who campaigns in public for political change.
johannesburg: South Africa's largest city, where he practiced law.
pretoria: Administrative capital where he was sworn in as president.
rivonia: Trial that sentenced him to life imprisonment in 1964.
xhosa: The language and people group he was born into.

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