NELSON MANDELASouth African anti-apartheid revolutionary

politician Philanthropist who served as President of South Africa

Madiba

Tata

His father died

BRIEF BIOGRAPHYFull name: Nelson Rolihlahla MandelaPlace of Birth: Village of Mvezo, Cape Province , South Africa

Date of Birth: July 18, 1918

Parents:Nkosi Mphakanyiswa Gadla

Nonqaphi NosekeniPrincipal counsellor to the Acting King of the Thembu

peopleJongitaba Dalindyebo

Xhosa term meaning “troublemaker

1930:Mandela became a ward of Jongitaba

Dreamed: Making his own contribution to the freedom struggle of his people.@school: He attended primary school at Qunu

Miss Mdingane “Nelson” = Christian NameCompleted his Junior Certificate Clarkebury Boarding Institute

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY@school: Went to Healdtown To earn repute

@college: University College of Fort HareBachelor of Arts degreeEnglish Anthropology Politics

Native Administration

1 Year

Roman Dutch Law

@theendoffirstyear Involved in a Student Representative Council boycottfoodTemporary SuspensionLeft without receiving a degree

But! Complete BA @ University of South Africa and went back @UCFHFor graduation in 1943

REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITYLaw Studies Only Native African student

RACISMbefriended

Liberal and Communist European

Jewish and Indian

Student

Joined @ANC Youth Legaue

He’s increasingly influenced by Sisulu

1943 He met Anton Lembede Racially unitedColonialismImperialismAlliance with the communist

He supported Lembede’s views:Black Africans should be entirely independent in their struggle for political self-

determination

REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITY1952 Chosen at National Volunteer-in-chief of the

Defiance Campaign

with: Maulvi Cachalia

1955 Only permitted Watched in secret as the Freedom Charter

5th December He was arrested 1956 Treason Trial

21st March 1960 1st State of Emergency Police killed 69 unarmed people

Protest in Sharpeville against the pass

lawsBanning of the ANC and Pan Africanist Congress8th April

REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITYDays before the end of the Treason Trial Nelson Mandela travelled to

Pietermaritzburg to speak at the All-in Africa Conference, which resolved that he should write to Prime Minister Verwoerd requesting a non-racial national convention, and to warn that should he not agree

there would be a national strike against South Africa becoming a republic.

Nelson Mandela went underground and began planning a national strike for 29, 30 and 31 March. In the face of massive mobilisation of

state security the strike was called off early. In June 1961 he was asked to lead the armed struggle and helped to establish Umkhonto weSizwe

(Spear of the Nation) which launched on 16 December 1961 with a series of explosions.

1962 Nelson secretly left South Africa, travelling around Africa and EnglandReceived military training at Morocco and Ethiopia

REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITYMandela was arrested while returning from KwaZulu-Natal

Convicted and Sentenced to five

years imprisonment

October 6, 1963: Nelson joined 10 others on trial for

sabotage

June 11, 1964Mandela

SisuluKathrada

MbekiMhlaba

GoldbergMotsoalediMlangeni

Life Inprisonment

AFTERMATH OF HIS REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITIES1991 Elected as ANC

President

1994Elected as South

African President

1999 Stepped down in Presidency

1993Won the Alfred Nobel Peace

Prize

1995Founded the

Mandela Children’s Fun

2013Mandela died

at Johannesburg

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