Nelson Mandela

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Representative Council. He was suspended from college for joining in a protest boycott. He went to Johannesburg where he entered politics by joining the African National Congress in 1942 (Woods).
At the height of the Second World War, members of the African National Congress set themselves the task of transforming ANC into a mass movement. In September of 1944 they came together to form the African National Congress
Youth League. Mandela soon impressed his peers by his disciplined work and consistent effort and was elected to the Secretaryship of the Youth League in 1947 (Ngubane).
By painstaking work, the ANCYL was able to get support for its policies amongst the ANC members. At the 1945 annual conference of the ANC, two of the leagues leaders, Anton Lembede and Ashby Mda, were elected onto the National
Executive Committee. Two years later another Youth League leader, Oliver R. Tambo became a member of the NEC
(Ngubane).
The victory of the National Party which won the ...

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and was admitted to the profession. He opened a practice in Johannesburg, in partnership with Oliver Tambo. In recognition of his outstanding contribution during the Defiance Campaign, Mandela had been elected to the presidency of both the Youth League and the ANC at the end of 1952 (Woods).
Their professional status did not earn them any leniency toward the brutal apartheid laws. The government wasn't alone in trying to frustrate Mandelas legal practice. The Transvaal Law Society petitioned the Supreme Court to strike him off the roll of attorneys but was unsuccessful. Mandela's desire to serve his black fellow citizens had done nothing unworthy to remain in the ranks of an ...

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