Nelson Mandela, once considered a terrorist, needed special permission to enter the US due to the ANC being classified as terrorists. Apartheid ended in 1994, but the US only removed the ANC from its terrorist watch list in 2008. Mandela’s birth name was Rolihlahla and he established the first black law firm in South Africa. He also had a cameo in a 1992 biopic.
Former South African president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela was once considered a terrorist and needed special permission to enter the United States. Members of the African National Congress (ANC), a political party established to peacefully protest the formal racial segregation of South Africa’s white minority-ruled apartheid regime, were classified as terrorists by South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s. Other countries, including the United States and Britain, have also placed the ANC on terrorist watch lists. Apartheid rule in South Africa ended in 1994 and Mandela became president of South Africa; however, the United States did not pass legislation to remove the ANC from its terrorist watch list until 2008.
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Mandela’s birth name was Rolihlahla, but his teacher began calling him Nelson when he was nine, as it was customary for South African children to be called by English names at school.
In 1952, Mandela established the first black law firm in South Africa.
Mandela had a cameo in one film: the 1992 biopic, as a teacher quoting American civil rights activist Malcolm X in his South African classroom.
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