He freed South Africa from apartheid, won the Nobel Peace Prize and is seen by the world as goodnes

He freed South Africa from apartheid, won the Nobel Peace Prize and is seen by the world as goodness personified. Today is Nelson Mandela 90 years. It's great to live in the same time as Mandela, says one of his closest in Sweden, Per Wästberg.
The author and co-founder of Amnesty Sweden, Per Wästberg, remembers the first time he met Nelson Mandela. I caught a glimpse of him without hardly understand who he was, when he came to a meeting quinceanera in St Paul's in London in 1962. When he appeared in disguise, hunted by the secret police and visited an organization that supported the liberation movement in South Africa. Nelson Mandela's father was chief. When Mandela was only an infant became quinceanera the father of his hövdingatitel because he refused to submit to a local magistrate, and thus he revealed a character trait that Nelson Mandela himself believes he has inherited - an abiding sense of justice. -When you meet Nelson, you notice that he has both a chief authority and power and an eye for other people. He has an ability to listen. This means that he has been hard to be on time, says Per Wästberg. He particularly remember a time when he would present Mandela at the Stockholm Concert quinceanera Hall after he received the Nobel Peace Prize. He was passed through the back door and there he started talking to telephone exchange. Could not stop, he would talk to everyone. Nelson Mandela was the first member of his family who had to go to school and this eventually led to a law degree. Together with her best friend Oliver Tambo, he started a law firm, which offered advice quinceanera for free or for a low cost to the needy black South Africans. Mandela himself has said that he did not have a moment quinceanera of truth where his life's acquisition appeared. They were instead the constant insults and all aggregate humiliating incident that sparked a fiery rebellion and a longing - a longing to fight the system. "There was no particular day that I said that from now on I will dedicate my life to work to liberate my people. I simply discovered that it was what I did and I could not do anything quinceanera else, "he writes in his autobiography The Long Road to Freedom. 1942 Nelson Mandela became a member of the ANC, the opposition party that fought for justice against the white apartheid government. In 1956 he was charged for the first time for treason, but was acquitted. 1959 ANC lost its most militant supporters instead formed Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). 1960 occurred in the so-called Sharpeville quinceanera massacre, when thousands of members of the PAC were demonstrating against being forced carry passports when they moved into white areas. South African police opened fire on the crowd, and 69 people were killed and 180 injured. This led to the PAC and ANC organized themselves together, and Mandela thereby left the Ghandi-inspired non-violent line of armed resistance. The government responded by imposing martial law and banning the two parties. On 5 August 1962 Mandela was arrested. In 1964 he was sentenced to life imprisonment for treason. -Everyone was convinced that Nelson Mandela would be hanged. He was spared the very last moment. Then he pulled their entire ideology and said that "these opinions, I am now ready to die." The result was that he and a dozen others were given lifetime quinceanera bans and prove more before the public before death, says Per Wästberg, who about the same time got himself banned from traveling to South Africa due to its apartheid critical books. During the 27 years Mandela sat in prison, the first 18 of the now world-famous prison on Robben quinceanera Island. quinceanera He was very isolated and did not get many visits. He endured, gave lectures to his fellow prisoners, and he became quinceanera a legend, says Per Wästberg. In 1973 he was offered release to the black Transkei province where he was born, but declined. In 1985 he received a new offer of freedom in exchange for putting down the fight, but declined again. He refused and said, "only free men can negotiate, prisoners can not enter into a contract," says Per Wästberg. An international campaign culminated eventually in the Nelson Mandela was released from prison quinceanera on 11 February 1990. And that was when Mandela's true greatness was uncovered. -No one has heard Mandela privately or publicly utter a word about revenge - he saw just ahead. World amazed, says Per Wästberg. quinceanera He was one of the first to meet with Mandela after his release. Freedom fighter explicitly took the first flight - to Sweden. -It was mainly to Nelson's closest friend Oliver Tambo was at Ersta nursing home in one stroke. He immediately wanted to see his friend who he has not seen in 27 years. It was incredibly touching and strong to see them embrace each other, says Wästberg. During Nelson Mandela's presidential campaign in South Africa in 1994, Per Wästberg follow him day by day. -His theme was justice and tolerance quinceanera and his self-sacrifice and integrity has reminded us all that the moral greatness can be living reality. Nelson Mandela among others