Following Nelson Mandela in South Africa Visitors can retrace
many of activist's most significant moments He founded modern
South Africa. The boy who grew up herding cattle in the hills of
the rural Transkei area and attended a Methodist missionary
school where he was given the name "Nelson" has dedicated his
adult life to opposing the racist and segregationist policy of
apartheid. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela at first advocated peaceful
opposition to white rule in early work with the African National
Congress, a liberation movement. But the stubbornness of the
apartheid regime increasingly frustrated him, until he turned to
armed struggle shortly after the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960 in
which police killed some 69 black protesters, shooting many of
them in the back. Shortly after the protest the regime banned
the African National Congress and another liberation movement,
the Pan Africanist Congress. In 1964, Mandela was sentenced to
life imprisonment for carrying out acts of sabotage. In prison
he became an in