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Nelson Mandela was born into the Madiba clan in the village of Mvezo, in the Eastern Cape.
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He attended primary school in Qunu. Were his teacher give him the name Nelson.
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He completed his BA through the University of South Africa and went back to Fort Hare for his graduation in 1943.
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In 1944 Nelson Mandela married Evelyn Ntoko Mase.
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In 1952 he was chosen as the National Volunteer-in-Chief of the Defiance Campaign with Maulvi Cachalia as his deputy
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Nelson Mandela got arrested.
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They been 5 years from he got arrested to he was acquitted
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He and his wife divorced in 1958.
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During the trial, Nelson married a social worker, Winnie Madikizela.
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Nelson Mandela was in prison many times of his life.
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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.
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Nelson Mandela toke to England to Miltary trained.
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He was charged with leaving the country without a permit and inciting workers to strike. He was convicted and sentenced to five years' imprisonment, which he began serving at the Pretoria Local Prison. On 27 May 1963 he was transferred to Robben Island and returned to Pretoria on 12 June. Within a month police raided Liliesleaf, a secret hideout in Rivonia, Johannesburg, used by ANC and Communist Party activists, and several of his comrades were arrested.
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On 9 October 1963 Mandela joined 10 others on trial for sabotage in what became known as the Rivonia Trial. While facing the death penalty his words to the court at the end of his famous "Speech from the Dock" on 20 April 1964 became immortalised
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I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.
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On 11 June 1964 Mandela and seven other accused, Walter Sisulu, Ahmed Kathrada, Govan Mbeki, Raymond Mhlaba, Denis Goldberg, Elias Motsoaledi and Andrew Mlangeni, were convicted and the next day were sentenced to life imprisonment. Goldberg was sent to Pretoria Prison because he was white, while the others went to Robben Island.
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Nelson Mandelas mother died when Nelson was in jail.
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On 31 March 1982 Mandela was transferred to Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town with Sisulu, Mhlaba and Mlangeni.
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On 12 August 1988 he was taken to hospital where he was diagnosed with tuberculosis.
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Nelson lived in two diffrent hospital under his imprisonment.
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After more than three months in two hospitals he was transferred on 7 December 1988 to a house at Victor Verster Prison near Paarl where he spent his last 14 months of imprisonment. He was released from its gates on Sunday 11 February 1990, nine days after the unbanning of the ANC and the PAC and nearly four months after the release of his remaining Rivonia comrades. Throughout his imprisonment he had rejected at least three conditional offers of release.
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Mandela immersed himself in official talks to end white minority rule and in 1991 was elected ANC President.
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Nelson Mandela created in 1995 a fond for childrens care.
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Divorced with his second wife
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Nelson Mandela married his third wife, on his 80th birthday. Graca Machel was the name of his last wife.
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True to his promise, Mandela stepped down in 1999 after one term as President. He continued to work with the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund he set up in 1995 and established the Nelson Mandela Foundation and The Mandela Rhodes Foundation.
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True to his promise, Mandela stepped down in 1999 after one term as President. He continued to work with the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund he set up in 1995 and established the Nelson Mandela Foundation and The Mandela Rhodes Foundation.
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In April 2007 his grandson, Mandla Mandela, was installed as head of the Mvezo Traditional Council at a ceremony at the Mvezo Great Place.
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Nelson Mandela in 2013 in his home in Johannesburg, he had a age of 95 when he died.
