Peacemaker. Activist. Revolutionary Leader. Learn how Nelson Mandela changed South Africa and the world. # NinetiesCNN Sunday at 9p. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. Wikipedia Born : July 18, 1918, Mvezo, South Africa Died : December 5, 2013, Houghton Estate, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa Movies and TV shows : Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom , Death of Apartheid , Dear Mandela , Darling! The Pieter-Dirk Uys Story Education : University of South Africa (1989), MORE Quotes Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. It always seems impossible until it's done.