Nelson Mandela
The man who fought apartheid
Here's a time line of Nelson Mandela's life
- 1918 - Born in MVEZO Cape Province
- 1942 - Start to attend ANC (African National Congress) meetings
- 1944 - Cofounds the ANC youth league
- 1948 - Elected national secretary of ANCYL
- 1951 - Elected president of ANCYL
- 1952 - Arested, charged and sentenced to 2 years of prison and hard labour
- 1960 - ANC is banned
- 1962 - Leaves the country for military training and then arrested and sentencedto 5 years
- 1964 - Sentenced to life
- 1985 - Rejects the South African president offer to release him if he renounces violence
- 1990 - ANC is unbanned and he is released from jail
- 1993 - Receive the nobel price
- 1994 - Elected as first president of the democratie of South Africa
- 1995 - Established the Nelson Mandela children's fund
- 1999 - Steps down after one term from presidency
- 2001 - Diagosed with prostat cancer
- 2003 - Established Mandela Rodhes foundation
- 2004 - Annouces the he will be stepping down from public life
- 2008 - Ask for futur generation to continu the fight for social justice
- 2013 - Passes away at home in Johannesburg at the age of 95
I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons will live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to see realised. But if it needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.
—Mandela's Rivonia Trial Speech, 1964