Nelson Mandela Signed PhotoA signed photograph of Nelson Mandela, signed as president on 26 05 1999 Nelson Mandela (1918 2013) was a South African politician, anti apartheid revolutionary and philanthropist, who spent his life battling racial injustice. He spent 27 years in prison for fighting apartheid and opposing the South African government, and was initially labelled a terrorist by some Western governments. Mandela was finally released from jail in 1990 and helped