Definition of leadership

• The art of motivating a group of people to act towards achieving a common goal.

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• Nelson Mandela is one of the world's most revered statesmen, who led the struggle to replace the apartheid regime of South Africa with a multi-racial democracy.

Background of Nelson Mandela

• Born in Transkei, South Africa on July 18, 1918

• Joined the African National Congress in 1944– engaged in resistance against the ruling Natio

nal Party's apartheid policies after 1948. • Nelson Mandela argued for the setting up of a mi

litary wing within the ANC after the banning of the ANC– formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe

• Arrested in 1962 and jailed for 27 years • Released on February 11, 1990.• In 1991, at the first national conference of t

he ANC held inside South Africa after the organization had been banned in 1960, Mandela was elected President of the ANC

• Mandela led his party in the negotiations that led to multi-racial democracy in 1994