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Feb 11, 1990 · Madiba's journey. Known and loved around the world for his commitment to peace, negotiation and reconciliation, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was South Africa's first democratically elected president (1994-1999). Mandela was an anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader, as well as a philanthropist with an abiding love for children.
Dec 5, 2013 · Starting in 2002, Mandela encouraged AIDS awareness and treatment, despite the stigma surrounding the disease. After returning home partway through university, Mandela fled to Johannesburg to avoid an arranged marriage. Mandela's primary school was a local missionary school where he became known as Nelson.
Nelson Mandela, (born July 18, 1918, Umtata, Cape of Good Hope, S.Af.—died Dec. 5, 2013, Johannesburg, S.Af.), South African black nationalist leader and statesman. The son of a Xhosa chief, Mandela studied law at the University of Witwatersrand and in 1944 joined the African National Congress (ANC). After the Sharpeville massacre (1960), he ...
Apr 27, 1994 · Mandela was born into the Xhosa royal family on 18 July 1918 and died on 5 December 2013. Rural Scene (1930) by A.M. Duggan Cronin, McGregor museum Kimberley The Nelson Mandela Foundation. #2: Where was Nelson Mandela born? Rolihlahla Mandela was born into the Madiba clan in the village of Mvezo, in the Eastern Cape, on 18 July 1918.
Dec 6, 2013 · Nelson Mandela, the prisoner-turned-president who reconciled South Africa after the end of apartheid, died on December 5, 2013. He was 95. Mandela became president of the African National Congress ...
Jun 8, 2013 · Nelson Mandela is one of the world's most revered statesmen, who led the struggle to replace the apartheid regime of South Africa with a multi-racial democracy. Jailed for 27 years, he emerged in ...
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was the son of Nonqaphi Nosekeni and Henry Mgadla Mandela, a chief and chief councillor to the paramount chief of the Thembu and a member of the Madiba clan. Mandela’s original name was Rolihlahla, which literally means ‘pulling the branch of a tree’, or colloquially, ‘troublemaker’.
