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  Biography of Nelson Mandela
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born in a village near Umtata in the Transkei on the 18 July 1918.
Mandela arrived at the conclusion very early on that the Bantustan policy was a political swindle and an economic absurdity.
Mandela s statements in court during these trials are classics in the history of the resistance to apartheid, and they have been an inspiration to all who have opposed it.
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  Nelson Mandela - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mandela was born to a Thembu family in the small village of Mvezo in the Mthatha district, capital of the Transkeian Territories of the Cape Province of the Union of South Africa.
Mandela's father, Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa, was a councillor to the Thembu king (a position he was groomed for from his birth and which Mandela was also destined to inherit).
Mandela went on to explain how they developed the Manifesto of Umkhonto on 16 December 1961 intent on exposing the failure of the National Party's policies after the economy would be threatened by foreigner's unwillingness to risk investing in the country.
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 Nelson Mandela - MSN Encarta
Nelson Mandela, born in 1918, South African activist, winner of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize, and the first fl president of South Africa (1994-1999).
Mandela, who enjoyed enormous popularity, assumed the leadership of the ANC and led negotiations with the government for an end to apartheid.
Mandela, who had announced that he would not run for reelection in 1999, stepped down as party leader of the ANC in late 1997 and was succeeded by South African deputy president Thabo Mbeki.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761556825/Mandela_Nelson_Rolihlahla.html   (1084 words)

  
 Nelson Mandela
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born on 18 July 1918 in Umtata.
Mandela was heavily involved in the opposition to apartheid and in 1964 he was sentenced to life imprisonment for his leadership of the ANC.
In 1991 Nelson Mandela was elected President of the ANC and in 1993 he and de Klerk were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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 Nelson Mandela hero file
Mandela is the first of his family to go to school, beginning his primary education when he is seven at a Methodist missionary school, where he is given the name Nelson.
The prison becomes known among the inmates as the 'Robben Island University' or the 'Nelson Mandela University', and Mandela is elected the leader of the ANC prisoners.
Mandela and de Klerk are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in December for "their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new, democratic South Africa".
www.moreorless.au.com /heroes/mandela.htm   (5705 words)

  
 Nelson Mandela
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born in a mud hut in a village near Umtata in Transkei South Africa on July 18, 1918.
Nelson Mandela was released from prison on 11 February 1990, and he plunged wholeheartedly into his life's work, striving to attain the goals he and others had set out almost four decades earlier.
Nelson Mandela was elected President of the ANC while his lifelong friend and colleague, Oliver Tambo, became the organization's National Chairperson.
www.swagga.com /mandela.htm   (2387 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Africa | Profile: Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela remains one of the world's most revered statesman, who led the struggle to replace the apartheid regime of South Africa with a multi-racial democracy.
Mr Mandela was born in 1918 into the Madiba tribal clan - part of the Thembu people - in a small village in the eastern Cape of South Africa.
Mr Mandela's greatest problem as president was the housing shortage for the poor, and slum townships continued to blight major cities.
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 Nelson Mandela calls for unity as South Africa buries ANC stalwart Adelaide Tambo - USATODAY.com
Mandela and President Thabo Mbeki led thousands of mourners including African leaders, government ministers, diplomats and clergy, in the service held at a stadium in the town of Wattville, east of Johannesburg, where the Tambo couple lived before they fled the country in 1960.
The ties between Mandela and the Tambos are strong and form part of the history of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa and the fight against white minority rule.
Mandela spent 27 years as a prisoner of apartheid, most of it at hard labor at the maximum-security prison on Robben Island off the coast of Cape Town.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2007-02-10-mandela-unity-message_x.htm   (0 words)

  
 Nelson Mandela - Biography
Mandela himself was educated at University College of Fort Hare and the University of Witwatersrand and qualified in law in 1942.
Mandela was arrested in 1962 and sentenced to five years' imprisonment with hard labour.
Nelson Mandela was released on February 11, 1990.
www.nobelprize.org /peace/laureates/1993/mandela-bio.html   (597 words)

  
 Nelson Mandela - Madiba
Mandela and his co-accused had consistently advised their followers to adopt a peaceful course of action and to avoid all violence.
Mandelas statements in court during these trials are classics in the history of the resistance to apartheid, and they have been an inspiration to all who have opposed it.
By 1952 Mandela and Tambo had opened the first fl legal firm in the country, and Mandela was both Transvaal president of the ANC and deputy national president.
www.freedom.co.za /madiba.html   (2054 words)

  
 Nelson Mandela - South Africa
Nelson Mandela's greatest pleasure, his most private moment, is watching the sun set with the music of Handel or Tchaikovsky playing.
In 1952 Nelson Mandela was given the responsibility to prepare an organisational plan that would enable the leadership of the movement to maintain dynamic contact with its membership without recourse to public meetings.
Mandela arrived at the conclusion very early on that the Bantustan policy was a political swindle and an economic absurdity.
www.sengani-horse-trails.com /information/nelson-mandela.htm   (4013 words)

  
 Nelson Mandela - Biography
Mandela himself was educated at University College of Fort Hare and the University of Witwatersrand and qualified in law in 1942.
Mandela was arrested in 1962 and sentenced to five years' imprisonment with hard labour.
Nelson Mandela was released on February 11, 1990.
www.nobel.se /peace/laureates/1993/mandela-bio.html   (588 words)

  
 AskMen.com - Nelson Mandela pics
Nelson Rolihlahla Dalibhunga Mandela was born July 18, 1918, near Umtata in Transkei, on the Eastern Cape of South Africa, into the royal family of the Thembu.
In 1947, Mandela was elected to the Secretaryship of the Youth League, which came to dominate the ANC by 1948.
Mandela was acquitted in 1961, after which he went underground and formed the ANC's military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (The Spear of the Nation).
www.askmen.com /men/business_politics/58c_nelson_mandela.html   (1146 words)

  
 The My Hero Project - Nelson Mandela
But even while in prison, Mandela continued to be a beacon of hope for his people who carried on the struggle against Apartheid in his absence.
Nelson Mandela is one of the world's true freedom fighters, and his life and personal triumphs will be remembered long after the world has forgotten the evils of Apartheid.
Nelson Mandela's book, Long Walk to Freedom tells the extraordinary story of his life, an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph.
myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=nelsonMandela   (981 words)

  
 Nelson Mandela - SouthAfrica.info
Nelson Mandela's 88th birthday celebrations kicked off with the launch of a book and a photo exhibition in his honour, as President Thabo Mbeki and his wife Zanele joined the rest of the world in wishing uTata Madiba a warm and happy birthday on Tuesday.
Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time.
Nelson Mandela - former Robben Island prisoner number 46664 - is the driving force behind a worldwide music-led campaign to raise global awareness of Aids and funds to fight the pandemic in Southern Africa.
www.southafrica.info /mandela   (474 words)

  
 Biographies of Famous South Africans - Madiba
Mandela s statements in court during these trials are classics in the history of the resistance to apartheid, and they have been an inspiration to all who have opposed it.
His stature become iconic as a Mandela persona was developed by the liberation movement to replace the absent person in the hearts and minds of his followers.
Mandela is the "Black Pimpernel" whose long walk to freedom took him to visit, for a cup of tea and reconciliation, Verwoerd's widow, Betsie, in the Afrikaner volkstaat of Orania - an experiment in monoracialism he as head of the new South Africa allowed to happen.
zar.co.za /mandela.htm   (843 words)

  
 Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela was a successful lawyer in Johannesburg until he joined the African National Congress in 1952.
A decade later, the ANC was banned and Mandela, an outspoken opponent of apartheid, went underground.
Nelson Mandela : Strength and Spirit of a Free South Africa.
www.multied.com /Bio/people/mandela.html   (203 words)

  
 Mr. Dowling's Nelson Mandela Page
Nelson Mandela led the African National Congress, a fl liberation group that opposed South Africa’s white minority government and apartheid.
Mandela was initially opposed to violence, but after a massacre of unarmed fl South Africans in 1962, he began advocating acts of sabotage against the government.
During his imprisonment, Mandela became a symbol of the anti-apartheid movement among South Africa’s fl population and among the international community that opposed apartheid.
www.mrdowling.com /610-mandela.html   (339 words)

  
 Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country.
The foster son of a Thembu chief, Mandela was raised in the traditional, tribal culture of his ancestors, but at an early age learned the modern, inescapable reality of what came to be called apartheid, one of the most powerful and effective systems of oppression ever conceived.
In classically elegant and engrossing prose, he tells of his early years as an impoverished student and law clerk in Johannesburg, of his slow political awakening, and of his pivotal role in the rebirth of a stagnant ANC and the formation of its Youth League in the 1950s.
archives.obs-us.com /obs/english/books/Mandela/Mandela.html   (900 words)

  
 Nelson Mandela - Wikiquote
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (born 18 July 1918) is a South African political activist, co-winner of Nobel Peace Prize with F.W. de Klerk in 1993, and in 1994 he became the first President of South Africa to be elected in fully-representative democratic elections.
Mandela's inauguration brought together the largest number of Heads of State since the funeral of US President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
Nelson Mandela did become the symbol of the struggle for liberation in South Africa.
en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Nelson_Mandela   (7358 words)

  
 Nelson Mandela Children's Fund Site Map - Children, Donations,South Africa, children, donations, fund charity, ...
This is the official website of the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund, we are proud to have you as a visitor.
The Nelson Mandela Children's Fund strives to change the way society treats children and youth.
Copyright Nelson Mandela Children's Fund 2004© Trust Reg Nr.
www.nelsonmandelachildrensfund.com   (130 words)

  
 Nelson Mandela Foundation – Home
The Nelson Mandela Foundation contributes to the making of a just society by promoting the vision and work of its Founder and convening dialogue around critical social issues.
The Nelson Mandela Foundation hosted a dialogue today, in which former US President Bill Clinton argued there was an urgent need for people to recognise that they are more similar than different.
This booklet consolidates the four Nelson Mandela Annual Lectures delivered to date and demonstrates the diverse views of the four eminent people who delivered these lectures.
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 Nelson Mandela Biography (Political Leader) — FactMonster.com
Nelson Mandela was the first fl president of South Africa and a legendary figure of the African National Congress, or ANC.
Mandela was elected the country's president in 1994.
Mandela's wife Winnie became a powerful figure in her own right while Mandela was imprisoned; however, her entanglement in a series of scandals led to the couple's estrangement in 1992, her dismissal from his cabinet in 1995, and their official divorce in 1996.
www.factmonster.com /biography/var/nelsonmandela.html   (351 words)

  
 CNN.com - Mandela: U.S. wants holocaust - Jan. 30, 2003
Former South African President Nelson Mandela blasts President Bush and the U.S. stance on Iraq.
Mandela said U.S. President George W. Bush covets the oil in Iraq "because Iraq produces 64 percent of the oil in the world.
Mandela said he would support without reservation any action agreed upon by the United Nations against Iraq, which Bush and Blair say has weapons of mass destruction and is a sponsor of terror groups, including Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network.
www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/01/30/sprj.irq.mandela/index.html   (435 words)

  
 Nelson Mandela - A Tribute
Nelson Mandela wrote a wonderful article for the January 3, 2000 issue of TIME magazine.
Nelson Mandela on Gandhi: He dared to exhort nonviolence in a time when the violence of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had exploded on us; he exhorted morality when science, technology and the capitalist order had made it redundant; he replaced self-interest with group interest without minimizing the importance of self.
The Nelson Mandela Foundation - The Nelson Mandela Foundation promotes and enables the growth of human fulfillment and the continuous expansion of the frontiers of freedom.
www.sa-venues.com /nelson_mandela.htm   (3251 words)

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