Under his leadership, the MK commenced a campaign of sabotage while Mandela traveled abroad to seek funding and training from other African leaders. He helped establish the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), a paramilitary force dedicated to overthrowing the apartheid regime. He and his codefendants were acquitted in 1961, but the trial and subsequent crackdowns convinced Mandela that apartheid could not be defeated solely through nonviolent means. Mandela’s prominent role in resisting apartheid brought the full force of the government down upon him, and he was tried for treason. His experience with apartheid, the collection of racist laws by which South Africa’s white minority dominated its black majority, led him to join the African National Congress, the leading organization opposing apartheid. In Johannesburg, Mandela trained to be a lawyer. As a child, he was destined to become a royal advisor, but the allure of the big city, Johannesburg, drew him to a life of political activism. Mandela was born in rural South African in 1918.
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