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Mandela was born into the Madiba clan, in the village of Mvezo.
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Though the date is unknown, Mandela's father died of tuberculosis when Mandela was only 12.
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Nelson Mandela joined the African National Congress on an unspecified date in 1942
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Mandela graduated through the University of South Africa, in Fort Hare in 1943.
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Mandela maried his first wife, Evelyn Mase, on the 5th of october.
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Mandela and his first wife Evelyn Mase were divorced in 1958.
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The year of Mandela's divorce with Evelyn Mase, Mandela was married to an other woman, by the name of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.
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Humphrey Tyler, reporter and assistant editor of drum magazine, tells that which he witnessed during the sharpville masacre.
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Mandela and his colleagues were detained in the treason trial during the state of emergancy, after the sharpville massacre during which 69 unarmed protesters were gunned down by the police.
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Mandela and his fellow activist Cecil Williams were captured near Howick and Mandela was sentanced to 5 years in prison.
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In 1965 Mandela's prison sentance was extended to life in prison-
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BBC wrote an article about the soweto uprising, which had started the morning of the 16th of juli 1976, the same day as the article was published.
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Nadine Gordimer writes a short story about apartheit from the perspective of a well off white family.
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After 27 years in prison, Mandela was finaly set free.
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Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk shared the nobel peaceprice in 1993.
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Rayda Jacobs writes a short story about what it's like to be the offspring of a mixed race couple during apartheit in South Africa.
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Nelson Mandela was elected as the first president of a truely democratic South Africa.
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In 1996 Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela were divorced outside of court.
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On the 18th of july 1998 Mandela was married to Graca Machel, to whom he was married till death did them part.
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Mandela announces that he shall be stepping down from his puplic life.
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Mandela died in his home in Johannesburg.
