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Nelson Mandela
- Background
- Nelson was born on July 1918 in Qunu, a
small rural village in South Africa's Eastern
Cape Province.
- South Africa is a county is the Africa which is
the second largest continent.
- Nelson's His tribal name was Rolihlahla which
meant "One who brings trouble on
himself
- His mother was Nonqaphi Nosekeni and his
father was Nkosi Mphakanyiswa Gadla
Mandela who was the principal counsellor to
the Acting King of the Thembu people
- Achievements
- In 1991, Awarded Carter-Menil Human Rights
Prize
- In 1993, he was awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize with President FW de Klerk
- Early Life
- He attended a primary school near Qunu
- When he was 12, his father died and
was placed in the care of an uncle who
was also a tribal chief
- He was later interested in politics and
current affairs and wanted to become a
lawyer
- When he was 20 he enrolled at the
University College of Fort Hare
- In 1940 he got expelled because of a
protest against the living conditions at the
university
- He Escaped an arranged marriage and
ran off to Johannesburg
- Family
- Nelson married Evelyn Ntoko
Mase on 1994
- He had four children, but then due to political
activities Nelson and Evelyn got divorced on 1958
- After Nelson divorced Evelyn in 1958, he
married Nomzamo Winnie Madikizela
- Nelson and Winnie had 2 children,
Zenani and Zindzi
- In 1996 Nelson divorces Winnie and
marries Graça Machel on his 80th birthday
- In 2010, his great-granddaughter Zenani is killed in a
car accident
- Johannesburg
- After running away from the arranged
marriage he became a mine security officer
- Nelson had to live in the townships, which were
areas near a city with rows of tiny boxlike
houses.
- Later after getting fired, Walter Sinsulu
secured him a job as an articled clerk
- Earning a small wage, Mandela rented a room in
the house of the Xhoma family in the Alexandra
township
- Nelson passed his BA exams in early 1943, Mandela
returned to Johannesburg to follow a political path as
a lawyer
- Death
- In 2001, Nelson got diagnosed
with prostate cancer
- After being admitted to the hospital over 5
times, Nelson Mandela died from
respiratory infection In the 5th of December
2013.