time line

By maddisyn17

  • start of nelson mandela

    he was born on July 18, 1918, in the small town of Mvezo located in Cape Province, located on the banks of the Mbashe River, near Umtata. Son of Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa, tribal chief, and adviser to the monarch of Tembuland.

  • in 1939 Nelson Mandela stared at the University of Fort Hare

    In 1939, Nelson Mandela entered the University of Fort Hare, the only center of higher education for Black people in the country, at that time

  • African National Congress party beginning

    In the 1940s, he was a leader of both peaceful protests and armed resistance against the white minority’s oppressive regime in a racially divided South Africa.

  • graduating

    At the end of 1941, he would receive the visit of Jongintaba who forgave him for having fled. A year later, Mandela would return to the University of Fort Hare and graduates in Law.