Nelson Mandela

• Nelson Mandela was born at Qunu, near Umtata on 18 July 1918.

•  In 1952 Mandela and Tambo opened the first Black Law firm in South Africa

• In 1944 Mandela helped found the ANC Youth League, whose Programme of Action was adopted by the ANC in 1949.

•  Mandela was instrumental in pushing the ANC into more direct action such as the 1952 Defiance Campaign and later acts of sabotage.

• in 1960 the Sharpeville massacre of 63 black South African’s changed the whole political climate.

•  by 1962 Mandela had been arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in the notorious Robben Island prison.

• Mandela’s release in 1990.

• 10 May 1994 Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the first democratically elected State President of South Africa on and was President until June 1999.

• In 1993 Nelson Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Price  jointly with F.W. De Klerk
•  Nelson Mandela died December 5, 2013, Houghton Estate, Johannesburg, South Africa