| Imprisonment caused problems for Mandela and his co-defendants in the Treason Trial; their lawyers could not reach them, and so it was decided that the lawyers would withdraw in protest until the accused were freed from prison when the state of emergency was lifted in late August 1960 | At the same time, South Africa experienced an influx of millions of from poorer parts of Africa; although public opinion toward these illegal immigrants was generally unfavourable, characterising them as disease-spreading criminals who were a drain on resources, Mandela called on South Africans to embrace them as "brothers and sisters" |
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| הוא היה עורך הדין השחור הראשון בדרום-אפריקה, שהיה בבעלותו משרד עורכי-דין | Mandela also received criticism for failing to sufficiently combat crime; South Africa had one of the world's highest crime rates, and the activities of international crime syndicates in the country grew significantly throughout the decade |
Following the fall of the in November 1989, de Klerk called his cabinet together to debate legalising the ANC and freeing Mandela.
| Zuma's candidacy was challenged by Winnie, whose populist rhetoric had gained her a strong following within the party, although Zuma defeated her in a landslide victory vote at the election | In 1986, Mandela's biographer characterised him as "the embodiment of the struggle for liberation" in South Africa |
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| Critics like accused Mandela's government of doing little to stem the pandemic in the country; by 1999, 10% of South Africa's population were HIV positive | Arriving in Johannesburg: 1941—1943 Returning to Mqhekezweni in December 1940, Mandela found that Jongintaba had for him and Justice; dismayed, they fled to via , arriving in April 1941 |
Some have portrayed Mandela in messianic terms, in contrast to his own statement that "I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.
30| Political ideology A friend once asked me how I could reconcile my creed of African nationalism with a belief in dialectical materialism | The negotiations agreed that a multiracial general election would be held, resulting in a five-year and a constitutional assembly that gave the National Party continuing influence |
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| In 2004, Mandela successfully campaigned for South Africa to host the , declaring that there would be "few better gifts for us" in the year marking a decade since the fall of apartheid | By 1995, he had entered into a relationship with , a Mozambican political activist 27 years his junior who was the widow of former president |