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US
/ˌmænˈdɛɫə/
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NOUN
- South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918)
How To Use Mandela In A Sentence
- Mandela was convinced of security force "connivance", at least in the form of standing back and allowing violence that they could stop. ANC Daily News Briefing
- A corollary to Godwin's Law, and as much of a thread quasher, must be hyperbolic reference to Mandela, Apartheid or the effectiveness / appropriateness of the anti-apartheid movement. Newmatilda.com - Comments
- Mandela added that economic development would, however, in the longer term undo the socio-economic conditions responsible for a large part of the problem of crime. ANC Daily News Briefing
- A year later, in February 1990, the South African government released Nelson Mandela and unbanned the African National Congress and the other liberation movements in South Africa.
- Mandela believed agreement would be reached in the next, final round of negotiations in July.
- In Mthatha, there will be a youth football tournament, a "heroes marathon" and a seminar to celebrate not only Mandela's 90th birthday but that of another African National Congress veteran Albertina Sisulu as well. ANC Daily News Briefing
- There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. Nelson Mandela
- From everything I have seen of Mr. Mandela, and from the memories I have of meeting him personally on several occasions, Mr. Freeman gets everything right: the walk, the cadences in the voice, the out-front and straight-ahead posture and the inner radiance that connect his thoughts and his words with visible facial computations — many of the qualities that make Mr. Mandela an inspiring leader. I'm Cheering for Morgan Freeman
- Whites continued to be imprisoned by notions of white supremacy, Mandela said, and by the notion of Afrikaner interests that were separate and opposed to the interests of the rest of the population. ANC Daily News Briefing
- Resentment is a method of self harm. Nelson Mandela