Fill in the Blanks Nelson MandelaOnline version Complete the text with the words. by belen Loranca 1 Nelson Mandela born in 1918 in Qunu , a village in South Africa . When Mandela was nine years old , his died . Mandela to school and then in 1937 went to university and after , he went to Johannesburg . In Johannesburg he saw apartheid , the segregation of black and . He lived in a black township and saw the life of black people in the city . This experience changed his life . In 1944 , Mandela the ANC , the African National Congress . This was the start of the road to a leader in the fight against apartheid . He his studies and became a lawyer in 1952 . He was more and more active in the fight against and in 1962 the government Mandela in prison . While Mandela was in , the fight against apartheid continued and around the world called for Mandela's release . Finally , the president of South Africa , FW de Klerk , to release Mandela .