Mandela

His Excellency

Nelson Mandela

President of South Africa

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

1) His Childhood: 1918–1936

Mandela was born on 18 July 1918 in the village of Mvezo in Umtatu, a part of South Africa's Eastern Cape.

The name of is father was Gadla Henry a local chief and councillor to the monarch

Gadla was a polygamist, with four wives, four sons and nine daughters

The name of his mother was Nosekeni Fanny,the third wife,

Mandela grew up with two sisters in the village of his mother

His mother sent him to school when he was about seven

When Mandela was about nine, his father died

Mandela began his secondary education at Clarkebury Boarding Institute in Enqcobo, the largest school for black Africans in Thembuland

He began playing sports. Spending much of his spare time long-distance running and boxing.

He studied English, anthropology, politics, native administration and Roman Dutch law in his first year

He encouraged to join the ANC (African National Congress)

2) Law studies and the ANC Youth League: 1943–1949

Beginning to study the law at the University of witwatersrand, Mandela was the only native African in the faculty, and he was facing racism,

He became friend of a number of liberal and communist European, Jewish, and Indian students

In 1943, Mandela joining the ANC a member of the executive

1950–1954

 In 1950, Mandela was elected national president of the ANCYL; at the ANC national conference of December 1951

In 1952, the ANC began preparation for a joint Defiance Campaign against apartheid with Indian and communist groups,

On 30 July 1952, Mandela was arrested under the Suppression of Communism Act in Johannesburg. Found guilty of "statutory communism", their sentence of nine months' hard labour was suspended for two years

In 1953 Mandela was the only all black Africanlaw firm in the country

On 5 December 1956, Mandela was arrested alongside most of the ANC Executive for "high treason" against the state.

Imprisonment

3) Arrest and Rivonia trial: 1962

Monument erected in 1996 marking the site where Mandela was arrested near Howick, KwaZulu-Natal

On 5 August 1962, the police arrested Mandela near Howick.

Transferred him to Marshall Square prison, Johannesburg, he was charged with inciting workers to strike and leaving the

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