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12 Stars You Never Knew Were Adopted

12. Nelson Mandela

The late Nelson Mandela, the South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. Mandela was born in the village of Mvezo in Umtata in 1918. He was initially raised by his parents, but his father died when he was 9 years old and he was taken to the larger village of Mqhekezweni, the Thembu provincial capital. It was here that Mandela was informally adopted by the Thembu chief Jongintaba.

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