Mandela had attributed success to Gandhi on winning Nobel
Anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela had attributed his success to Mahatma Gandhi while receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. He praised Gandhi for his "morality, simplicity, and love for the poor". The two never met as Gandhi left South Africa in 1914, before Mandela's birth on July 18, 1918. India conferred Mandela with the International Gandhi Peace Prize in 2001.