Nelson Mandela

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1962 Mandela visits leaders of other countries(Ethiopiua, Ghana, Senegal, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Mali, Morocco).

1962 the police caught him in a car outside Rivonia and he got five years in prison. He was a leader in in prison, and the other prisoners always wanted him to speak for them.

He appeals all over the world through mass media in prison.

In his 27 and a half years in prison, he didn’t thinking about his family.

1969 Mandela was very sad because he could not see his mother’s last time.

1977 he started a garden. He gave vegetables to prisoner cook and the warders.

1988 he was moved Victor Verster prison. There was very nice and larger.

1990 new president F.W de Klerk freed Nelson Mandela .

It was beginning of the end of apartheid in South Africa.

1991 He became president of the ANC.

1993 he and de Klerk won the Nobel Peace Prize.

1994 Mandela is President of South Africa=apartheid end.

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As you know he is a reader of ANC(African National Congress),  the first black president of South Africa.

But I didn’t know his young time.

He was born in Mvezo. When he was child, he was very happy.

When he was 16, he stop being boy. he sat on the ground with other boys.

Then he liked white man because they built schools.

Many university students he protested.

In 1943-49 he studied law at Witwaterland University and he was only black student.

1944 he married first wife. And he had four children.

In 1951 he and ANC told government “change six apartheid laws or we’ll protest again”. And he told other member of ANC “perhaps the police will use violence but you can’t.

 Next year he started law office in Johannesburg with friend. It was the only black lawyer office in South Africa.

1956 he was arrested.

1957 he married again.