was he ever imprisoned for his political views?
Yes, he was repeatedly arrested for seditious activities and was unsuccessfully prosecuted in the 1956 Treason Trial.
Nelson Mandela
He was repeatedly arrested for seditious activities and was unsuccessfully prosecuted in the 1956 Treason Trial.
who become the first president of south africa in 1994 Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela which political movement was he associated with? African National Congress (ANC) party
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Nelson Mandela [SEP] Introduction
He studied law at the University of Fort Hare and the University of Witwatersrand before working as a lawyer in Johannesburg. There he became involved in anti-colonial and African nationalist politics, joining the ANC in 1943 and co-founding its Youth League in 1944. After the National Party's white-only government established apartheid, a system of racial segregation that privileged whites, he and the ANC committed themselves to its overthrow. Mandela was appointed president of the ANC's Transvaal branch, rising to prominence for his involvement in the 1952 Defiance Campaign and the 1955 Congress of the People. He was repeatedly arrested for seditious activities and was unsuccessfully prosecuted in the 1956 Treason Trial.