NELSON MANDELA

MOTHER TERESA

NELSON MANDELA: BIOGRAPHY

• Rolihlahla Mandela was born into the Madiba clan in the village of Mvezo , Transkei, on 18 July 1918.
• He attended a primary school in Qunu where his teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave him the name Nelson, in according to the custom of giving schoolchildren “Christian” names.
• He attended the University College of Fort Hare ebut was expelled for joining in a student protest.

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• By his own admission he was a poor student and left the university in 1952 without graduating. He started studying again through the University of London after his imprisonment in 1962 but also did not complete that degree.
• Nelson Mandela died December 5 2013

NELSON MANDELA (TOP ROW, SECOND FROM LEFT) ON THE STEPS OF WITS UNIVERSITY

INSPIRATIONS

• Nelson Mandela spent his life fighting as most people would agree as a moral cause, and paid a great price of which he step out unbroken in mind, in spirit and in compassion.

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• He was a voice for the voiceless
• He was a father figure
• A huge role model and part of people's lives
• And he was to most people, the greatest man alive..

ACTION AND EXPERIENCES

• Nelson Mandela spent the first 18 of his 27 years in jail at the brutal Robben off the coast of Cape Town where he was places into to a small confined cell without a bed or plumbing and compelled to do hard labor in a lime quarry.

IMPACT

• Nelson Mandela believed that... No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion,” he wrote, “People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

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• Nelson Mandela impacted South Africa by: Forsaking bloodshed Forging a political path A global player Peace and forgiveness A cultural power A generous soul

He wanted his people to feel free and be safe. He wanted them to be equal. He wanted peace, joy and happiness

MOTHER TERESA BIOGRAPHY:

• Mother Teresa taught in India for 17 years before she experienced her 1946 "call within a call" to devote herself to caring for the sick and poor.
• Born 29 August 1910
• Catholic nun and missionary
• Attended a convent run primary school
• She as a child sung in a scared heart choir
• When she was 18-years-old, she decided to become a nun and went Ireland to join the Sisters of Loreto in Dublin
• Baptized on August 27, 1910, in Skopje, Macedonia.

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