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View here Born in Transkei, South Africa. Rolihlahla Dalibhunga Mandela was his name and later he got an english name Nelson.
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fathers deathHis father died when Nelson was nine and his father was apart of the Thembu clan.
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Moving to place to placeNelson Mandela moves to Healdtown in 1937 and attending the Wesleyan college in Fort Beaufort.
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leavingAsked to leave Fort Hare due to a involvment with a boycott of the Students' Representative Council against the university policies.
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Joins the African National Congress (ANC) as an activist.
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Veiw Forms the Youth League of the ANC with Oliver Tambo and Walter Sislu.
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Veiw hereSouth African government (Afrikaner-dominated National Party) limits the freedom of black Africans
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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.
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click to view heremarriage of 13 years to his first wife Evelyn Ntoko Mase ends.
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click here to viewsentenced to 5 years in prison but gets on the run again.
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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.
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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
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Click here to viewOver 600 students killed in protests at Soweto and Sharpeville
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Click here to viewfarmers able to re-arm and protect themselfs from blacks dissidents.
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Click here to viewrealesed after 27 years and the president lifts the banned on ANC
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Click here to viewBecomes the president of ANC
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Click here to viewSeparates from Winnie Mandela after she is convicted of kidnapping.
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Free Elections where black South Africans are allowed to vote for the first time. Of course he runs for president.
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click here to view moreMakgatho Mandela dies of AIDS
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Click here to view more93rd birthday
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click here to view moreDiagnosed with prostate cancer