... Africans and in most cases were left with hardly nothing. Between 1948 and 1994, Blacks, together with some other racial groups struggled to bring an end to apartheid. In 1918 Rolihlahla Dalibhunga Mandela was born into a tribal clan, in a small village in South Africa's Eastern Cape. A teacher at his primary school later gave him his English name, Nelson. In 1943 Mandela Joined the African National Congress (ANC), initially as an activist, but in 1944 he formed the youth league of the ANC with his close friends Oliver Tambo and Walter Sislu. Just over ten years later in 1955, the Freedom Charter was first adopted at the Congress of the People. This called for equal rights and equal share of wealth with the country's White population. He was then, in 1956 along with 155 other political activists, accused of conspiring to overthrow the South African state by ...

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