Nelson Mandela Historical Personal Signed Letter to Montel Williams Autographed

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Nelson Mandela Historical Personal Signed Letter to Montel Williams Autographed
Nelson Mandela Historical Personal Signed Letter to Montel Williams Autographed
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A personal autographed letter from Nelson Mandela to Montel Williams regarding his support of the "My Acre of Africa" project in 2002.  It is framed and also signed on the back by Montel Williams, the frame measures 16x12.  This was bought at auction, there were many personal awards and various items that belonged to Montel Williams there, they might have been selling the contents of his house, I am not sure.  I have not examined it out of the frame since it was signed on the back as well, I will guarantee authenticity.
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
(
/
m
æ
n
ˈ
d
ɛ
l
ə
/
;
[1]
Xhosa:
[xolíɬaɬa mandɛ̂ːla]
; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African
anti-apartheid
revolutionary, statesman and
philanthropist
who served as
President of South Africa
from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a
fully representative
democratic election.
His government
focused on dismantling the legacy of
apartheid
by tackling institutionalised racism and fostering racial
reconciliation
. Ideologically an
African nationalist
and
socialist
, he served as the president of the
African National Congress
(ANC) party from 1991 to 1997.
A
Xhosa speaker
, Mandela was born into the
Thembu
royal family in
Mvezo
,
Union of South Africa
. He studied law at the
University of Fort Hare
and the
University of Witwatersrand
before working as a lawyer in
Johannesburg
. There he became involved in
anti-colonial
and African nationalist politics, joining the ANC in 1943 and co-founding its
Youth League
in 1944. After the
National Party
's
white-only government
established apartheid, a system of
racial segregation
that privileged
whites
, Mandela and the ANC committed themselves to its overthrow. He was appointed president of the ANC's
Transvaal
branch, rising to prominence for his involvement in the 1952
Defiance Campaign
and the 1955
Congress of the People
. He was repeatedly arrested for
seditious
activities and was unsuccessfully prosecuted in the
1956 Treason Trial
. Influenced by
Marxism
, he secretly joined the banned
South African Communist Party
(SACP). Although initially committed to non-violent protest, in association with the SACP he co-founded the militant
Umkhonto we Sizwe
in 1961 and led a
sabotage
campaign against the government. He was arrested and imprisoned in 1962, and subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment for conspiring to overthrow the state following the
Rivonia Trial
.
Mandela served 27 years in prison, split between
Robben Island
,
Pollsmoor Prison
and
Victor Verster Prison
. Amid growing domestic and international pressure and fears of racial civil war, President
F. W. de Klerk
released him in 1990. Mandela and de Klerk led efforts to negotiate an end to apartheid, which resulted in the
1994 multiracial general election
in which Mandela led the ANC to victory and became president. Leading a
broad coalition government
which promulgated a
new constitution
, Mandela emphasised reconciliation between the country's racial groups and created the
Truth and Reconciliation Commission
to investigate past
human rights
abuses. Economically, his administration retained its predecessor's
liberal framework
despite his own socialist beliefs, also introducing measures to encourage
land reform
,
combat poverty
and expand healthcare services. Internationally, Mandela acted as mediator in the
Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial
and served as secretary-general of the
Non-Aligned Movement
from 1998 to 1999. He declined a second presidential term and was succeeded by his deputy,
Thabo Mbeki
. Mandela became an elder statesman and focused on combating poverty and
HIV/AIDS
through the charitable
Nelson Mandela Foundation
.
Mandela was a controversial figure for much of his life. Although critics on
the right
denounced him as a
communist terrorist
and those on the
far left
deemed him too eager to negotiate and reconcile with apartheid's supporters, he gained international acclaim for his activism. Widely regarded as an icon of democracy and
social justice
, he received
more than 250 honours
, including the
Nobel Peace Prize
. He is held in deep respect within South Africa, where he is often referred to by his
Thembu clan name
,
Madiba
, and described as the "
Father of the Nation
".
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