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Nelson Mandela’s birth name was “Rolihlahla Mandela”. In the Xhosa language, Rolihlahla means “trouble maker”, but that was the name the shape the modern Africa of today
Welcome to the Man Nelson Mandela: Mandela was born on July 18, 1918, in a small village called Mvezo in Transkei South Africa.
His father was destined to be a chief who served as a counselor to tribal chiefs for several years. Later on, a dispute with the local colonial magistrate truncated his title and fortune.
During the period, Mandela was a little boy as his father was forced to Qunu due to his father’s loss of status. Qunu was rather a smaller village north of Mvezo, with No roads, no portable water. Only footpaths that linked the pastures were livestock grazed.
Mandela’s life changed drastically when his father died of lung disease when Mandela was 12. A man called Chief Jongtintaba Dalindyebo adopted Nelson Mandela after the death of his biological father. Jongtintaba was the regent of the Thembu people. Hence, Mandela left the Qunu land and the lifestyle there and traveled by car to Mqhekezweni which was more sophisticated and the provincial capital of Thembuland to the chief royal’s residence.
Nelson Mandela's EDUCATION
Mandela was the first in his family to attend school. It was Mandela’s British teacher at school who told him (Mandela) that his new first name would be Nelson.
Mandela took classes in a one-room school next to the palace. In this school, he studied English, history, and geography. He took interest in African history from elder chiefs who came to the palace on official business.
History taught him how African people lived in peaceful co-existence until the arrival of the white colonialists. He learned that the children of South Africa lived amicably in peace and harmony but when the White Europeans came into the country, they shattered the harmonious living within the natives for their 'white men's selfish gains and interest
Mandela attended a Wesleyan Mission School, the Clarkebury boarding institute, and Wesleyan College.
He achieves academic success through hard work. Mandela enrolled at the University of Fort Hare in 1939. The university was equated with Harvard University.
He read Dutch law at the university. In his second year, Mandela was elected to the Student Representative Council. He was later expelled for supporting students who staged out against SRC for their poor management of the school (e.g, lack of electricity).
When he told Regent Jongintaba about the incident, he was furious and told Mandela to return to school and quit aligning with the student protestation.
He later eloped from the Regent and went to Johannesburg where he did a variety of jobs including as a guard and clerk – while completing his bachelor's degree through correspondence courses. He later enrolled at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg to read law.
Anti Apartheid Movement:
Mandela joined the African National Congress (ANC) in the year 1942. In the ANC, a group of young vibrant youths had a shared vision to transform the ANC into a mass grassroots movement.
In 1949, the ANC officially adopted the youth’s league pattern of boycott, strikes, civil disobedience, and non-cooperation with policy goals of full citizenship, redistribution of land, trade union rights, free and compulsory education for all children.
Nelson Mandela led peaceful non-violent acts of defiance against the South African government and its racist policies for 20 years. He partnered with Oliver Thembo, a brilliant student he met at the University of Fort to found a law firm known as Mandela and Thembo.
In 1956, Mandela was arrested alongside 150 others charged with treason for their political advocacy. The ANC was confronted by Africanists who were fresh breed activists. Africanists soon broke away to form Pan-Africanist Congress which affected ANC negatively.
Nelson Mandela PRISON LIFE
Mandela later deviated from non-violent protest to armed struggle as the only way to achieve the envisioned change. He masterminded three-day national workers strike in the year 1961.
He was consequently arrested for spearheading the strike the following year and was sentenced to 5 years in prison.
Mandela was later sentenced to life imprisonment alongside 10 others ANC leaders for political offenses including sabotage. He was imprisoned for 27 years from November 1962 until February 1990.
In 1982, Mandela and other ANC leaders were moved to Pollsmoor Prison, allegedly to enable contact between them and the South African government. The then President P.W Botha in 1985 offered Mandela release in exchange for renouncing armed struggle but Mandela flatly turned down the offer, so he was remanded in prison without hope of release
Nelson Mandela WIFE AND CHILDREN
Nelson Mandela married three times with six children. He married his first wife Evelyn Ntoko Mase in the year 1944. Mandela and Evelyn had four children. They divorced in 1957.
Nelson Mandela then re-married to Winnie Madikizela. The union produced two sons who later became ambassadors to Argentina and Denmark respectively.
The marriage ended in the year 1996. He later remarried again to his last wife Graca Machel in 1998. Graca was the first education minister of Mozambique. Mandela later died in the year 2013.
A South African intelligence agent (Gordon Winter) sent a memoir in 1981 describing a plot by the government to arrange for Mandela’s escape to shoot him during the recapture. The plot was foiled by British intelligence.
The power and influence Mandela had in the global political community continued to play a pivotal role, so much that a coordinated international campaign for his release was launched. He was such a potent symbol of black resistance
Nelson Mandela PRESIDENCY
On April 27, 1994, South Africa held its first democratic elections. Mandela was inaugurated as the country’s first black president on May 10, 1994, at the age of 77 and was deputized by Frederick Willem de Klerk.
From 1994 until June 1999, President Nelson Mandela worked to bring about the transition from minority rule and apartheid to Black majority rule.
He used the nation’s enthusiasm for sports to reconcile between the white and the Black people. During his presidency, Mandela worked to protect the economy of South Africa from collapse.
Mandela retired from mainstream politics in 1999. He publicly announced his retirement from public life and returned to his native village of Qunu. and Nelson Mandela later died On 5 December 2013
Till today, long after he has gone, Nelson Mandela remains one of the best democratic Presidents in the African continent, the modem of today Africa, and the face of Freedom, An article written By Eugene Bassey Etim: World Forum. Join The World Forum Now For 100% Free and be a voice in making the Global World a better place for all. sign up now for free:
Welcome to the Man Nelson Mandela: Mandela was born on July 18, 1918, in a small village called Mvezo in Transkei South Africa.
His father was destined to be a chief who served as a counselor to tribal chiefs for several years. Later on, a dispute with the local colonial magistrate truncated his title and fortune.
During the period, Mandela was a little boy as his father was forced to Qunu due to his father’s loss of status. Qunu was rather a smaller village north of Mvezo, with No roads, no portable water. Only footpaths that linked the pastures were livestock grazed.
Mandela’s life changed drastically when his father died of lung disease when Mandela was 12. A man called Chief Jongtintaba Dalindyebo adopted Nelson Mandela after the death of his biological father. Jongtintaba was the regent of the Thembu people. Hence, Mandela left the Qunu land and the lifestyle there and traveled by car to Mqhekezweni which was more sophisticated and the provincial capital of Thembuland to the chief royal’s residence.
Nelson Mandela's EDUCATION
Mandela was the first in his family to attend school. It was Mandela’s British teacher at school who told him (Mandela) that his new first name would be Nelson.
Mandela took classes in a one-room school next to the palace. In this school, he studied English, history, and geography. He took interest in African history from elder chiefs who came to the palace on official business.
History taught him how African people lived in peaceful co-existence until the arrival of the white colonialists. He learned that the children of South Africa lived amicably in peace and harmony but when the White Europeans came into the country, they shattered the harmonious living within the natives for their 'white men's selfish gains and interest
Mandela attended a Wesleyan Mission School, the Clarkebury boarding institute, and Wesleyan College.
He achieves academic success through hard work. Mandela enrolled at the University of Fort Hare in 1939. The university was equated with Harvard University.
He read Dutch law at the university. In his second year, Mandela was elected to the Student Representative Council. He was later expelled for supporting students who staged out against SRC for their poor management of the school (e.g, lack of electricity).
When he told Regent Jongintaba about the incident, he was furious and told Mandela to return to school and quit aligning with the student protestation.
He later eloped from the Regent and went to Johannesburg where he did a variety of jobs including as a guard and clerk – while completing his bachelor's degree through correspondence courses. He later enrolled at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg to read law.
Anti Apartheid Movement:
Mandela joined the African National Congress (ANC) in the year 1942. In the ANC, a group of young vibrant youths had a shared vision to transform the ANC into a mass grassroots movement.
In 1949, the ANC officially adopted the youth’s league pattern of boycott, strikes, civil disobedience, and non-cooperation with policy goals of full citizenship, redistribution of land, trade union rights, free and compulsory education for all children.
Nelson Mandela led peaceful non-violent acts of defiance against the South African government and its racist policies for 20 years. He partnered with Oliver Thembo, a brilliant student he met at the University of Fort to found a law firm known as Mandela and Thembo.
In 1956, Mandela was arrested alongside 150 others charged with treason for their political advocacy. The ANC was confronted by Africanists who were fresh breed activists. Africanists soon broke away to form Pan-Africanist Congress which affected ANC negatively.
Nelson Mandela PRISON LIFE
Mandela later deviated from non-violent protest to armed struggle as the only way to achieve the envisioned change. He masterminded three-day national workers strike in the year 1961.
He was consequently arrested for spearheading the strike the following year and was sentenced to 5 years in prison.
Mandela was later sentenced to life imprisonment alongside 10 others ANC leaders for political offenses including sabotage. He was imprisoned for 27 years from November 1962 until February 1990.
In 1982, Mandela and other ANC leaders were moved to Pollsmoor Prison, allegedly to enable contact between them and the South African government. The then President P.W Botha in 1985 offered Mandela release in exchange for renouncing armed struggle but Mandela flatly turned down the offer, so he was remanded in prison without hope of release
Nelson Mandela WIFE AND CHILDREN
Nelson Mandela married three times with six children. He married his first wife Evelyn Ntoko Mase in the year 1944. Mandela and Evelyn had four children. They divorced in 1957.
Nelson Mandela then re-married to Winnie Madikizela. The union produced two sons who later became ambassadors to Argentina and Denmark respectively.
The marriage ended in the year 1996. He later remarried again to his last wife Graca Machel in 1998. Graca was the first education minister of Mozambique. Mandela later died in the year 2013.
A South African intelligence agent (Gordon Winter) sent a memoir in 1981 describing a plot by the government to arrange for Mandela’s escape to shoot him during the recapture. The plot was foiled by British intelligence.
The power and influence Mandela had in the global political community continued to play a pivotal role, so much that a coordinated international campaign for his release was launched. He was such a potent symbol of black resistance
Nelson Mandela PRESIDENCY
On April 27, 1994, South Africa held its first democratic elections. Mandela was inaugurated as the country’s first black president on May 10, 1994, at the age of 77 and was deputized by Frederick Willem de Klerk.
From 1994 until June 1999, President Nelson Mandela worked to bring about the transition from minority rule and apartheid to Black majority rule.
He used the nation’s enthusiasm for sports to reconcile between the white and the Black people. During his presidency, Mandela worked to protect the economy of South Africa from collapse.
Mandela retired from mainstream politics in 1999. He publicly announced his retirement from public life and returned to his native village of Qunu. and Nelson Mandela later died On 5 December 2013
Till today, long after he has gone, Nelson Mandela remains one of the best democratic Presidents in the African continent, the modem of today Africa, and the face of Freedom, An article written By Eugene Bassey Etim: World Forum. Join The World Forum Now For 100% Free and be a voice in making the Global World a better place for all. sign up now for free: