Nelson Mandela (Basic Level) Nelson Mandela was an important man in the Universal History. He was born in 1918 in Mvezo. He lived in South Africa all his life. He studied law but he never worked as law-man. He worked again Apartheid in your country. He was in jail twenty-seven years to struggle for racial equality. When he was free, he manager to be national president. He was the firth black president in your country. During this time, the government gave social right such as racial equality, homosexual married and others lawyers for women. He died in 2013, however people always remember Nelson Mandela. There´s four film about life of Nelson Mandela.