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Once released from prison, Nelson continued his campaign to end apartheid. His hard work and life long effort paid off when all races were allowed to vote in the 1994 election. Nelson Mandela won the election and became president of South Africa.
On October 15, 1989, seven of Nelson Mandela's companions imprisoned with him in the sinister Robben Island prison, off the coast of Cape Town, were freed by the apartheid power. "'I knew I wouldn't have to wait long,'" Mandela wrote in his autobiography, A Long Way to Freedom. In fact, on February 11, 1990, twenty years ago to the day, the leader of the African National Congress (ANC), a symbol of the struggle against white segregationist power, was released from prison. A liberation celebrated around the world by all those who have mobilized for years because it is the first great victory against this shameful regime, supported almost to the end by the "Western democracies".He, of whom we knew only a few pictures taken in the fifties, when he was only in his forties, stunned the whole world, moved, with his graying hair. But in hindsight, what was perhaps most surprising when we saw him with, by his side, the one who was still his wife, Winnie, is the dignity of this man whom the white power did not only want to bend: he wanted to break it. He will not succeed. In April 1964, already imprisoned (he was arrested on 5 August 1962), before his judges who sentenced him to life imprisonment, Mandela declared: "I fought white domination, I fought black domination. I cherished the idea of a free and democratic society in which all would live in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal for which I hope to live and achieve. But if it were needed, it is an ideal for which I am ready to die. »
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