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Nelson Mandela –

Facts about his life

p  Birthday: 18. July 1918 in Qunu, Transkei (Photos)

p  After the death of his father he becomes a leader of election district

p  After his school qualifications he goes to university of Fort Hare to become lawyer

p  In 1940 he take part in a protest campaign and as consequence he is banished from the university

p  Since 1942 he has been an active member of the ANC and the ANCYL (he helps to found the ANCYL)

à In 1950 Nelson becomes ANCYL President

à In 1952 he becomes ANC Transvaal President and National Vice-president

p  1952 he founds the first black lawyer’s office with his partner Oliver Tambo

p  Nelson Mandela realizes that the way of the Apartheid regime isn’t a way of law and fairness, thus he becomes an enemy of the regime

p  He is accused in the famous trial of the south African government against the ANC

p  After the Sharpville Massacre in 1960 the government ban the ANC

p  Nelson Mandela is in prison until 1961

p  After his release from prison he is committed to the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK, the military branch of the ANC)

p  After 1962 he has to stay 5 five years in prison, but in the Rivonia trial he gets life imprisonment (Nelson Mandela's statement)

p  In 1964 nearly the whole leading figures of the ANC are condemn to life imprisonment

p  Frederik de Klerk becomes the first chairman of the national party and president at the 20.9.1989: He prompts that Nelson Mandela and all the other ANC members are released from prison and the banishment from the ANC is abolished

p  In 1991 he becomes ANC President

p  In 1993 Nelson Mandela and Frederik de Klerk get the Peace Nobel Price (Picture on the right side)

p  In 1994 the first democratically elections take place, where all south Africans can take part

p  In 1994 Nelson Mandela becomes president of the Republic of south Africa

p  Mandela leads the reorganization of the state and the society away from Apartheid und the minority government and fights for the national and international reconciliation:

à Government of National Unity (GNU) )

à Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)

o  In 1999 he resigns from his office as president

o  After his resign he works as lawyer for several humane rights organisations

o  He gets several honours (par example Order of St. John and Presidential Medal of Freedom)