Mandela had attributed success to Gandhi on getting Nobel
South Africa's anti-Apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela had attributed his success to Mahatma Gandhi while receiving the Nobel Prize in 1993. He had also praised Gandhi for his "morality, simplicity, and love for the poor", saying, "while Gandhi was a human without weaknesses, I am a man of many weaknesses." Mandela was later conferred with the International Gandhi Peace Prize.