Introduction
Nelson Mandela is best known for the first black president of South Africa and he went to prison because he tried to stop apartheid. Mandela also hated people having apartheids. The name Nelson came from his teacher Miss Mdingane on the first day of school because she thought that since the whites ruled South Africa they should all have an English name.
Early Life
Nelson Mandela was born on 18th of July 1918; he was born in Umtata, Transkei. The name he was given was Rolihlahla Mandela by his father, He has Khosian ancestry on his mother’s side. His patrilineal great – grandfather Ngubengcuka who died in 1832, ruled as the Inkosi, Enkhulu, or King. Mandela’s father’s name was Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa, However, upon alienating the colonial authorities, Dalindyebo would later return the favour by informally adopting Mandela upon Mphakanyiswa's death. Mandela’s father had four wives, with whom he fathered thirteen children four boys and nine girls. Nelson became the first member of his family to go to school. Teacher Miss Mdingane gave him the English name "Nelson” Mandela’s favorite game as a child was stick fighting. Nelsons Mandela’s sisters names are Mabel and Leabie, Leabie died.
When Mandela was nine, his father died in 1930 of tuberculosis, and the regent, Uncle Jongintaba became his guardian. Thembu custom, he was initiated at age sixteen, and attended Clarkebury Boarding Institute. Mandela completed his Junior Certificate in two years, instead of the usual three. Mandela began to study for a Bachelor of Arts at the Fort Hare University, where he met Oliver Tambo. Tambo and Mandela became lifelong friends and colleagues. Mandela also became close friends with his kinsman. His At the end of Nelson's first year, he became involved in a Students' Representative Council boycott against university policies, and was told to leave Fort Hare and not return unless he accepted election to the SRC Later in his life, while in prison, Mandela studied for a Bachelor of Laws from the University of London External Programme.
On 5 December 1956, in response to the adoption of the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People, the Apartheid government in South Africa arrested a total 156 people, including Chief Albert Luthuli (president of the ANC) and Nelson Mandela.
Mandela later started work as an articled clerk at a Johannesburg law firm, Witkin, Sidelsky and Edelman, through connections with his friend and mentor, realtor Walter Sisulu. While working at Witkin, Sidelsky and Edelman, Mandela completed his B.A. degree .
Prison
On June 12, 1964, eight of the accused ANC leaders, including Mandela, were sentenced to life in prison because he interrupted a government speech, Mandela was sent to the notorious Robben Island Prison, a maximum security jail near Cape Town. His reputation grew during his years of imprisonment as he became viewed as South Africa's most significant black leader, as well as a symbol for equal rights, justice and resistance against apartheid. While in prison, Mandela refused to compromise his political beliefs in order to obtain his freedom. He stated that "only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts." In December 1988, he was transferred to Victor Verster Prison, from where he was eventually released in February 1990, after nearly 27 years of incarceration. Following his release, Mandela wasted no time resuming his life's work: the dismantling of the vicious system of apartheid. After being banned for decades, the first national conference of the ANC was held inside South Africa in 1991. Mandela was elected president of the ANC, while lifelong friend and colleague, Oliver Tambo, became the organization's national chairperson. Mandela played a key
Life in prison was the WORST 27 years of Mandela’s life, Mandela was only allowed two letters a year and guards would read the letter first and cross out any bit in black that he did not need to know. He found out that his mother died on she Died in 1999 On October 9th and his son died in a car crash in 1969. Mandela was only aloud two visitors a year and they could talk to him for 30 minutes, the guards would also listen to know.
After Prison
He went back to working for justice and equality for all South Africans. Nelson Mandela was released on February 11, 1990. After his release, he plunged himself wholeheartedly into his life's work, striving to attain the goals he and others had set out almost four decades earlier. In 1991, at the first national conference of the ANC held inside South Africa after the organization had been banned in 1960, Mandela was elected President of the ANC while his lifelong friend and colleague, Oliver Tambo, became the organization’s National Chairperson. Mandela became president of South Africa on the 10th of May in 1994. Nelson only came out of jail because the president that put him into jail died and the new one let him out, and because that people of South African went in to streets shouting ‘’ Release Mandela, Release Mandela!’’
Thank You …
And that is my biography about Nelson Mandela’s life…
The End! J
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