HEROES IN THE REAL LIFE

Nelson Mandela (Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, Mvezo, Transkei, 1918 - Johannesburg, 2013) South African activist and politician who led the movements against apartheid and who, after a long struggle and 27 years in prison, presided in 1994 the first government that put an end to to the racist regime. The twentieth century left two world wars, the extermination camps and atomic terror, but also great champions of the fight against injustice, such as Mahatma Gandhi or Martin Luther King. The last and most charismatic of them was Nelson Mandela.