Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela

1. 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

2. Achievements

   • In 1991, Awarded Carter-Menil Human Rights Prize
     • In 1993, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with President FW de Klerk

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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.