562482 nelson mandela

Mandelas' Day

By NatSalas03017

  • Birth date

    Mvezo, Cape Province, South Africa

  • He founded the ANC

    He founded the Youth League of the African National Congress (ANC) with Oliver Tambo and Walter Sisulu.

  • He marries his first wife Evelyn

  • He got arrested

    Mandela and others are arrested and charged under the Act of Suppression of Communism. Receive a suspended prison sentence.

  • He is elected as national vice president of the ANC

  • He divorces his first wife Evelyn

  • He marries Winnie Madikizela

  • He leave the country in secret

    Travel to receive military training in Morocco and Ethiopia. On his return to South Africa, he is captured and sentenced to five years in prison for provocation and leaving the country illegally

  • Is charged with conspiracy and sabotage

  • Is sentenced to life imprisonment

    Mandela and seven others are sentenced to life imprisonment in Robben Island, a prison on the shores of Cape Town

  • Frederik de Klerk voids a ban that weighed on the ANC

    Frederik de Klerk, the last white South African president, voids a ban that weighed on the ANC and other liberation movements..

  • Mandela is released

  • He is elected president of the ANC

  • He wins the Nobel Peace Prize

  • Mandela swears as the first black president of South Africa

  • He divorces Winnie Madikizela

  • He retires, delivers the power to Mbeki

  • Announces that his only living son, Makgatho Mandela, died of AIDS at age 54

  • US lawmakers delete references to Mandela as a "terrorist" from national databases

  • Death date

    Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa