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The Nelson Mandela statue in Sandton City's Nelson Mandela Square was commissioned originally to stand on the spot where Nelson Mandela gave his inaugural address.
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Nelson Mandela mediated between the MPLA and UNITA factions during the last years of Angola's civil war.
* 1962 – Nelson Mandela is jailed.
Some ANC members were upset by the actions of the MK, and refused to accept violence as necessary for the ending of Apartheid, but these individuals became a minority as the militant leaders such as Nelson Mandela gained significant popularity.
After facilitator Julius Nyerere's death in October 1999, the regional leaders appointed Nelson Mandela as Facilitator of the Arusha peace process.
* 1990 – Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner.
de Klerk allows the African National Congress to function legally and promises to release Nelson Mandela.
He won the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize in 1991, the Prince of Asturias Award in 1992 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 along with Nelson Mandela for his role in the ending of apartheid.
He was one of the Deputy Presidents of South Africa during the presidency of Nelson Mandela until 1996, the last white person to hold the position to date.
Frederik de Klerk and Nelson Mandela shake hands at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum held in Davos in January 1992.
He lifted the ban on the African National Congress ( ANC ) and released Nelson Mandela.
After the first free elections in 1994, de Klerk became deputy president in the government of national unity under Nelson Mandela, a post he kept until 1996.
" About Nelson Mandela he said, " When Mandela goes it will be a moment when all South Africans put away their political differences, will take hands, and will together honour maybe the biggest South African that has ever lived.
Nelson Mandela received his Freedom of the City here in 1993.
On 18 July 2007 in Johannesburg, South Africa, Nelson Mandela, Graça Machel, and Desmond Tutu convened a group of world leaders to contribute their wisdom, independent leadership and integrity to tackle some of the world's toughest problems.
Nelson Mandela announced the formation of this new group, The Elders, in a speech he delivered on the occasion of his 89th birthday.
* While incarcerated on Robben Island prison, Nelson Mandela recited the poem to other prisoners and was empowered by its message of self-mastery.
* 1980 – The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
* 1964 – Anti-apartheid activist and ANC leader Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison for sabotage in South Africa.
* 1918 – Nelson Mandela, South African politician, President of South Africa and Nobel Prize laureate
* Nelson Mandela International Day
This diplomatic breakthrough followed years of negotiation, including a visit by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to Libya in December 1998, and personal appeals by Nelson Mandela.
Led by dictator Hastings Banda, Malawi was the only African country to maintain close relations with White-ruled South Africa until the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela.
* 1990 – Nelson Mandela is elected deputy President of the African National Congress.
* 1994 – Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.
Nelson and statue
He was entrusted with the carving of the bas-reliefs on the south side of the Marble Arch in Hyde Park, and executed numerous busts and statues of public figures, including the prominent, well-known statue of Nelson, at the top of Nelson's Column, in Trafalgar Square.
The Lord Nelson statue became the location for preaching and political protests.
* Looking over St Martin's Square is the statue of Horatio Nelson.
The Craigleith sandstone statue of Nelson is by E. H. Baily and the four bronze lions on the base, added in 1867, were designed by Sir Edwin Landseer.
The winning entry, chosen by a sub-committee headed by the Duke of Wellington was a design by William Railton for a Corinthian column, surmounted by a statue of Nelson, and flanked by four sculpted lions.
Railton submitted a slightly revised design, and was once again declared the winner, with the stipulation that the statue of Nelson should be made by EH Baily.
The statue at the top was sculpted by Edward Hodges Baily R. A. from three pieces of Craigleith sandstone donated by the Duke of Buccleuch, former chairman of the Nelson Memorial Committee, from his own quarries.
In Dublin, Ireland, Nelson's Pillar was erected in 1808 but was destroyed by republicans in 1966, and in the Bull Ring, Birmingham, England, there is a Grade II * listed bronze statue of Nelson by Richard Westmacott, dating from 1809.
A much shorter statue of Lord Nelson in Trafalgar Square, Bridgetown, Barbados is older than its counterpart in London.
In 2006, the city of Greenville, South Carolina, also named for him, unveiled a statue of Greene designed by T. J. Dixon and James Nelson at the corner of South Main and Broad Streets.
A statue of Nelson stands in front of the Minnesota State Capitol
Nelson Mandela Square, formerly known as Sandton Square, was renamed in March 2004, after the unveiling of a 6-metre bronze statue of the former South Africa president.
In 1809, a statue of Horatio Nelson by Richard Westmacott Jr. was erected by public subscription.
On 9 September 1997, on the twentieth anniversary of the death of Steve Biko, Woods was present in East London when a statue of Biko was unveiled by Nelson Mandela and the bridge across the Buffalo River was renamed the " Biko Bridge ".
In the last year of his life, Woods gave his name to support an appeal to erect a statue of Nelson Mandela in Trafalgar Square outside the South African High Commission, where anti-apartheid campaigners had demonstrated during the period of the apartheid regime.
* Nelson Mandela ( b. 1918 ): President of South Africa 1994-1999 ( statue on the south-western edge of the green )
The bronze statue of Nelson Mandela was erected in the square in 2007, Westminster City Council having objected to it being built in Trafalgar Square due to space considerations.
The Lord Mayor of Birmingham lays a wreath at Birmingham's statue of Lord Nelson on Trafalgar Day 2007.
In Birmingham, the anniversary is celebrated by a ceremony at the statue of Lord Nelson in the Bull Ring.
The statue is the oldest statue to Lord Nelson in the United Kingdom.
The 8-foot statue is the world's first Nelson commemorative and predates that in London by 33 years.
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