Nelson Mandela was nearly 76 when he was elected President of South Africa in the country’s first vote open to all races. The anti-apartheid leader was sentenced to life in prison in 1964, released in 1990, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with South African President Frederik Willem de Klerk in 1993. Mandela himself was elected President in 1994 with 62% of the vote. Read Who Cares? about the struggle for dignity at Woodruff Home for the Aged, “a lively place where old people go to die.” Learn more about the book and its characters, aged 9-90, in NOVELS.
Nelson Mandela nearly 76 when elected President of South Africa
Woodruff Home for the Aged, a lively place where old people go to die
