Nelson Mandela

Birth Date

Jul 18, 1918

View here Born in Transkei, South Africa. Rolihlahla Dalibhunga Mandela was his name and later he got an english name Nelson.

Fathers Death

Oct 4, 1927

fathers deathHis father died when Nelson was nine and his father was apart of the Thembu clan.

Moving

Oct 23, 1937

Moving to place to placeNelson Mandela moves to Healdtown in 1937 and attending the Wesleyan college in Fort Beaufort.

Leaving

Apr 2, 1939

leavingAsked to leave Fort Hare due to a involvment with a boycott of the Students' Representative Council against the university policies.

Joins the AFC

Mar 6, 1943

Joins the African National Congress (ANC) as an activist.

Forming a youth league

Aug 7, 1944

Veiw Forms the Youth League of the ANC with Oliver Tambo and Walter Sislu.

Limits freedom of blacks

Jan 6, 1948

Veiw hereSouth African government (Afrikaner-dominated National Party) limits the freedom of black Africans

Accused

Dec 5, 1956

Click here to view Accused of overthrow the South African state by violent means with 155 other political activists and charged with high treason. The Treason Trial of 1956–61 follows and all were acquitted.

marriage ends

Feb 5, 1957

click to view heremarriage of 13 years to his first wife Evelyn Ntoko Mase ends.

Prisoned

Oct 25, 1962

click here to viewsentenced to 5 years in prison but gets on the run again.

Captured

Jun 12, 1964

click here to view Captured and convicted of sabotage and treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the age of 46. On Robben island when he would be kept for 18 years.

Momma Down!

Feb 6, 1968

click here to viewMther dies and his eldest son is killed in a car crash but he not allowed to attend either of the funerals

600 killed

Feb 6, 1976

Click here to viewOver 600 students killed in protests at Soweto and Sharpeville

Re-armed

Feb 6, 1983

Click here to viewfarmers able to re-arm and protect themselfs from blacks dissidents.

Realeased

Feb 11, 1990

Click here to viewrealesed after 27 years and the president lifts the banned on ANC

Presedent ANC

Feb 6, 1991

Click here to viewBecomes the president of ANC

Kidnapped

Apr 6, 1992

Click here to viewSeparates from Winnie Mandela after she is convicted of kidnapping.

President

Apr 26, 1994

Free Elections where black South Africans are allowed to vote for the first time. Of course he runs for president.

Sons death

Jan 6, 2005

click here to view moreMakgatho Mandela dies of AIDS

93 birthday

Jul 18, 2012

Click here to view more93rd birthday

Cancer

Feb 6, 2013

click here to view moreDiagnosed with prostate cancer