Nelson Mandela was in prison for 27 years, the prison was on Robben Island. He got let out on the 11th of February, 1990.
Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962 and was sentenced to life in prison in 1964. He was released in 1990 after serving 27 years in prison.
Nelson Mandela was let out of prision on the 11th February 1990.
Nelson Mandela was arrested only once. He was originally sentenced to five years in prison for attempting to leave South Africa without a passport. He was then charged with sabotage without being released. He was in prison from 1962 to 1990.
Nelson Mandela was arrested 5 August 1962 and released from prison 2 February 1990. Pro-apartheid South African president, P.W. Botha, had a stroke in 1989 and Botha's replacement, Frederik Willem de Klerk, freed Mandela. Botha had once offered Nelson Mandela release from jail in 1985, but only on the condition that Mandela would stop the armed conflict. Nelson Mandela chose to stay in prison as he believed it was the right thing to do in order to put an end to apartheid.
because he fought for the africans in Africa
he was let out by the police he was let out by the police
Nelson Mandela grew up with the tradition of listening to elders discus and debate issues and continue until unity was achieved. Mandela values a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.
[Nelson Mandela had] married a nurse, Evelyn, and he had by her three surviving children, but he got no support there. Evelyn became a Jehovah's Witness and greatly resented Mandela's political activities, which turned the marriage sour and sullen... Nelson Mandela saw and fell in love with Winnie Madikizela, a beautiful but violent woman sixteen years his junior. In 1958 he divorced Evelyn and married Winnie...
when nelson Mandela got out of jail he went on the election list to be presendent of south Africa, lots of black people queued for days just to vote for him
He was in prison for 20 years then was let free and soon became president of South Africa
Nelson Mandela is hero because he stopped apartheid in south Africa. he be lived that one day all the South Africa's Will sit together and live together. He risked his own life to set freedom for black South Africans.