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He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid by fostering racial reconciliation. Ideologically an African nationalist and socialist , he served as the president of the African National Congress ANC party from to He studied law at the University of Fort Hare and the University of Witwatersrand before working as a lawyer in Johannesburg.

There he became involved in anti-colonial and African nationalist politics, joining the ANC in and co-founding its Youth League in After the National Party 's white-only government established apartheid, a system of racial segregation that privileged whites , Mandela and the ANC committed themselves to its overthrow. He was appointed president of the ANC's Transvaal branch, rising to prominence for his involvement in the Defiance Campaign and the Congress of the People.

He was repeatedly arrested for seditious activities and was unsuccessfully prosecuted in the Treason Trial.

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Although initially committed to non-violent protest, in association with the SACP he co-founded the militant uMkhonto we Sizwe in that led a sabotage campaign against the apartheid government. He was arrested and imprisoned in , and, following the Rivonia Trial , was sentenced to life imprisonment for conspiring to overthrow the state.

Amid growing domestic and international pressure and fears of racial civil war, President F.