Revising important people, places and events in Nelson Mandela’s life (1918-2013)
Was born in Qunu (Transkei) 1918. He studied Law at the university Witwatersrand. He was one of the founders of ANC and also gave support to MK. He spent 27 years in prison. HE received the Nobel Peace Prize together with F.W. de Klerk. He later became the President of South of Africa ( 1994 – 1999)
He got married three times:Evelyn Mase, Winnie and Graça Machel.
He had six children.
Rolihlahla
David Montsamayi
Madiba
And ethnic groups descendents from Holland (Dutch). They speak Afrikaans and nowadays the represent the 5% of South African population.
Most of them are white.
The were mainly Afrikaners the ones who introduced the apartheid law. (segregation of races)
(1928 – 1986)He was the chief of Thembu people. He was the uncle of Nelson Mandela, and raised him when his own father died. He was 56 years when he died.
He taught Nelson Mandela:how a leader should behave, History of Africa and the arrival of white people.
Thembu people are part of the Xhosa nation.
He was a South African anti-apartheid politician. And a central figure and founder of the ANC.
In 1955 became the secretary general of ANC after Walter Sisulu, but he had to organise it abroad from London where he became the acting president (of the ANC).
3 years before his death (1990) he was elected the national charmperson of the ANC. .
He was born 1912 – 2003.
He was a South African anti-apartheid activist and member of the ANC. Serving at times the Secretary General and Deputy President of ANC.
He was jailed at Robben Island and spent more than 25 years in there.
Daniel François Malan (1874 - 1959), more commonly known as D.F. Malan, was the Prime Minister of South Africa from 1948 to 1954.
He is seen as a champion of Afrikaner nationalism.
His National Party government came to power on the program of apartheid and began its comprehensive implementation.
He was born in Netherlands in 1901- 1966 in Cape Town.
He was first the Minister of Education in South Africa.
He was the Prime Minister of S.A. in 1958-1966.
He is remembered as the man of the conception of apartheid.
In 1961, during the first months of Mandela going underground, Kodesh hid him for nearly eight weeks in his one-room bachelor apartment in a white suburb of Johannesburg.
He was the Chief of Odlala Lakota notable in American History.
He received the Nobel Peace Prize because he worked as a peaceful leader in the ANC.
He is the first African to receive a Nobel Prize in 1961.
Born in 1936 and he’s still alive.He was the last state President of apartheid era in South Africa.
De Klerk was the leader of the national party. He put an end to the apartheid and he also relesed Nelson Mandela and other politicians from prision. He received the Nobel Peace Prize 1993.
Activists that fought against apartheid.
Bram Fischer was a South African lawyer notable for the anti-apartheid activist for the legal defence of anti-apartheid figures.
EVELYN MASE
She was born in South Africa, 1922.She was a nurse and married Mandela in 1944.
They had 4 children. She met N. Mandela through her cousin Walter Sisulu and his Albertina Sisula.
She was the second wife of Nelson Mandela. She was a South African activist and a politician who held the National African Congress Women’s League.
She was a member of ANC Executive Committee.
She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and she is 77 years old now.
He was born in San Angelo.
He graduated in sociaology.
Teacher, journalist, theatre director, political activist, Vice-Chair of the Congress of Democrats Committee and member of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), was in the car in which Nelson Mandela was arrested by the Security Police
