Who was Nelson Mandela and tell about his contribution to society ?

When he finally got out, he only stre He appeared in a Spike Lee film. Mandela has a cameo in 1992’s Malcolm X as a teacher reciting one of the civil rights activist’s speeches.ngthened his fight against Apartheid.

But he refused to deliver a certain line of Lee’s script.

He worked as hard to make peace as he did to bring down Apartheid.

His policies saved and improved innumerable lives

According to Anthony Sampson, Mandela’s official biographer, by the end of his administration,

. He used sports to bring the racially divided country together.

Mandela saw national reconciliation as one of the most important tasks of his presidency.

. He was open about his biggest mistake — and tried till the end to make up for it.

Mandela has admitted that he didn’t do enough to address the HIV/AIDS crisis during his presidency, after he left office much of his work focused on combating the disease.

He established the nonprofit organization 46664 (his prison number) in 2002, with the mission of promoting HIV/AIDS prevention and awareness.

In 2005, he announced that his 54-year-old son Makgatho Mandela had died of an illness related to AIDS. He urged South Africans to treat AIDS as an “ordinary” disease, instead of a curse for which “people will go to hell and not to heaven.”

He probably won more awards than anyone in history.

In addition to the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize, Mandela has received more than 250 awards, including honorary degrees from more than 50 universities worldwide

In 2001, he became the first living person to be made an honorary Canadian citizen, and he was the last person to receive the Lenin Peace Prize from the Soviet Union.

There’s now a global holiday in his honor.

In 2009, the United Nations declared that Nelson Mandela International Day will be celebrated every year on July 18 (his birthday).

The purpose of the day is to honor Mandela’s legacy and promote community service.