Nelson Mandela was born in Mvezo 18.7.1918 and he died in Johannesburg 5.12.2013
He where known as Madiba or Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela.
Nelson attended school in Qunu where his teacher gave him the name Nelson, in accordance to give all children Christian names.
At Clarke bury Boarding Institute he completed his certificate and went to Healdtown, a Wesleyan secondary school, where he matriculated.
He began at the University College of fort hare, where he began his bachelor studies but he did not complete the degree because he where expelled for joining a student protest.
He returned to the great place of Mqhekezweni. The king was furious and told him to return to forte hare to complete his studies, if he would not he would arrange wives and married for him and his cousin Justice. They decided to run away instead to Johannes burg, when the arrived there in …show more content…
(Here you seen Nelson Mandela at the top row, first to the right) Nelson Mandela while increasingly politically involved from 1942, only joined the African National Congress in 1944 when he helped to form the ANC Youth League.
In 1944, he married Walter Sisulu’s cousin Evelyn Mase and she was a nurse. They got two sons, Madiba Thebekile “Thembi” and Makgatho and two daughters both called Makaziwe. He and his wife divorced in 1958
Nelson rose through the ranks of the ANCYL and through all of its effort, the ANC adopted a much more radical mass-based policy, the Programme of Action in 1949.
In 1952 Nelson he where chosen at the National Volunteer-in-Chief of the defiance campaign with Maulvi Chacalia.
Nelson where arrested in a police swoop 5.12.1955, which led to the 1956 Treason Trial. Where Men and women of all races found themselves in the dock in the marathon trial that only ended when the last 28 accused and Mandela was one of them, were he was acquitted on 29 March