Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for contemporary graded material that will motivate students to read. Nelson Mandela was the most important South African of the last one hundred years. This is a fascinating and informative biography charting Mandela's long fight against apartheid before becoming President of South Africa in 1994. REVISED AND UPDATED.Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for contemporary graded material that will motivate students to read. Nelson Mandela was the most important South African of the last one hundred years. This is a fascinating and informative biography charting Mandela's long fight against apartheid before becoming President of South Africa in 1994. REVISED AND UPDATED.