Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (/mænˈdɛlə/; born Rolihlahla Mandela (Xhosa pronunciation: [xoˈliːɬaɬa manˈdeːla]); 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black chief executive, and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid through tackling institutionalised racism and fostering racial reconciliation. Politically an African nationalist and democratic socialist, he served as President of the African National Congress (ANC) party from 1991 to 1997. Internationally, Mandela was Secretary General of the Non-Aligned Movement from 1998 to 1999.
A Xhosa born to the Thembu royal family, Mandela attended Fort Hare University and the University of Witwatersrand, where he studied law. Living in Johannesburg, he became involved in anti-colonial politics, joining the ANC and becoming a founding member of its Youth League. After the Afrikaner minority government of the National Party established apartheid – a system of racial segregation that privileged whites – in 1948, he rose to prominence in the ANC's 1952 anti-apartheid Defiance Campaign, was appointed superintendent of the organisation's Transvaal chapter and presided over the 1955 Congress of the People. Working as a lawyer, he was repeatedly arrested for seditious activities and, with the ANC leadership, was unsuccessfully prosecuted in the Treason Trial from 1956 to 1961. Influenced by Marxism, he secretly joined the South African Communist Party (SACP). Although initially committed to non-violent protest, in association with the SACP he co-founded the militant Umkhonto we Sizwe in 1961, leading a sabotage campaign against the government. In 1962, he was arrested, convicted of conspiracy to overthrow the state, and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia Trial.
I remember right when I woke up the first time
My mom had told me she had set it up by lunch time
You were coming over here to play at my house
We needed a play date, I threw up in my mouth
Never thought that I'd be this fed up so soon
'Till you put your hands on all the stuff in my room
Remember how I even made a sign said, "Keep out!"
I'm gone for one minute, I come back you sneak out
Ohhh you know just how to make me crazy
Ohhh this time I'm telling you I'm telling you
We are never ever ever getting back together
We are never ever ever getting back together
You go talk to your mom talk to my mom talk to me
But we are never ever ever ever getting back together
I'm really miss how immature you are
Working half an hour to make sure I fall
Over when we have to watch TV together
I'm come in, you trip me, spill popcorn, then feathers
Ohhh you know just how to make me crazy
Ohhh this time I'm telling you I'm telling you
We are never ever ever getting back together
We are never ever ever getting back together
You go talk to your mom talk to my mom talk to me