Nelson Mandela (1918 – 2013) was born to a poor family in a small village in South Africa. As the first child in the family to go to school, he ------(show) an interest in political issues and was forced to leave his first university for protesting.
At that time, as a result of apartheid, black and white people were separated from each other. Black people had to live in rural areas and farm on infertile lands. Witnessing all those injustices, Mandela ------(joined/joins/was joining) a group and ------(fighted/was fighting/fought) against the government. However, the ruling government ------(arrested/arrest/was arrested) him in 1962 and ------putputtedwas putting him into prison for the next 27 years. When he was in prison, he ------(beginned/began/begun) to find out more about his struggles for democracy and justice.
Released in 1990, Mandela ------(kept/keeped/was keeping) fighting against the ruling government and black people in the world already ------(was considered/consider/considered) him their hero. Eventually, his struggles ------(got/getted/gotten) successful results as they put an end to apartheid. Nelson Mandela ------(become/became/becomed) the first democratically elected president of South Africa.