NELSON ROLIHLAHLA MANDELA

Birth Place: Mvezo, Union of South Africa

Birth Date: 18 July, 1918 [Age 91]
Religion: Methodism
Political Party: African National Congress

Mandela's words, "The struggle is my life," are not to be taken lightly.

Nelson Mandela exemplifies fight. He is still most important the fight in opposition to apartheid with unusual vigor and resilience after expenditure almost three decades of his life at the back bars. He has sacrificed his personal life as well as his youth for his people, and leftovers South Africa's best known moreover loved hero.

Mandela has apprehended numerous positions in the ANC: ANCYL secretary (1948); ANCYL president (1950); ANC Transvaal president (1952); deputy national president (1952) and ANC president (1991).

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Nelson Mandela) was born in 18 July in a village near Umtata in the Transkei. His father named Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa. Who was the principle councilor of Thembuland. After his father death, Nelson Mandela became the paramount chief ward and groomed for the chieftainship.

Mandela matriculated at Healdton Methodist Boarding School and then ongoing a BA degree at Fort Hare. As an SRC member he participated in a student belt and was disqualified, along with the late Oliver Tambo, in 1940. He completed his degree by correspondence from Johannesburg, did articles of clerkship as well as enrolled for an LLB at the University of the Witwatersrand.

In 1944 he help to establish the ANC Youth League, who’s programmed of exploit was adopted by the ANC in 1949.
Mandela was selected national volunteer-in-chief of the 1952 Defiance Campaign. He travelled the country organizing confrontation to biased legislation.

He was given a balanced sentence for his part in the movement. Abruptly afterwards a proscription order restricted him to Johannesburg for six months. Throughout this period he formulated the "M Plan", in terms of which ANC twigs were broken down into secretive cells.

By 1952 Mandela with Tambo had opened the first black lawful firm in the country, and Mandela was together Transvaal president of the ANC as well as deputy national president.
An appeal by the Transvaal Law Society to hit Mandela off the roll of attorneys was refused by the highest Court.

For the next half of the 'fifties, he was one of the accused in the disloyalty examination. By means of Duma Nokwe, he conducted the defense.

While the ANC was disqualified after the Sharpeville slaughter in 1960, he was held until 1961 when he went secretive to lead a campaign for a new national meeting.

Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the military division of the ANC, were born the same year. Beneath his management it launched a campaign of damage against government and monetary installations.

In 1962 Mandela left the country for military preparation in Algeria and to position training for other MK members.

On his come back he was under arrest for leaving the country unlawfully and for incitement to strike. He conducted his own protection. He was convicted as well as imprisoned for five years in November 1962. Although serving his sentence, he was emotional, in the Rivonia trial, with damage and sentenced to life captivity.

A decade earlier than being jailed, Mandela had spoken out next to the introduction of Bantu Education, recommending that group of people activists "make every home, every shack or rickety arrangement a centre of learning".

Robben Island, where he was jailed, became a centre for learning, as well as Mandela was a central figure in the organized following education classes.

In penitentiary Mandela never compromise his political values and was always a source of power for the other prisoners.

Throughout the 'seventies he refused the offer of a reduction of sentence if he recognized Transkei and established there.

In the 'eighties he again discarded PW Botha's offer of liberty if he renounced aggression

It is important that shortly after his let go on Sunday 11 February 1990, Mandela and his allocation decided to the deferment of armed struggle.

Mandela has voluntary degrees from more than 50 international universities as well as is chancellor of the University of the North.

He was inaugurated as the first democratically chosen State President of South Africa on 10 May 1994 - June 1999

Nelson Mandela retired from Public life in June 1999. He at present resides in his birth place - Qunu, Transkei.

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