NELSON MANDELA TRIBUTE

NELSON MANDELA

• Born on July 18, 1918
• Part of the Xhosa Tribe
• Goes to the University of Witwatersrand
• Joins the ANC
• Gets married to Evelyn Mase

NELSON MANDELA

• Participated in protest and sentenced in Rivonia
• Sent to Robben Island Prison
• Offered freedom if he would renounce his violent protests
• After 27 years, F.W. De Clerk frees Nelson Mandela
• Awarded in the Noble Piece Prize in 1994

UNIVERSITY OF WITWATERSRAND LAW SCHOOL

• Attends the University of Witwatersrand Law School in 1943
• Witwatersrand University is in Johannesburg
• Began to follow anti-apartheid groups
• Followed Anton Lembedi who was an anti-apartheid activist

NELSON MANDELA JOINS THE ANC

• Nelson Mandela joins in 1944
• He becomes involved in protests
• ANC leader was Alfred Bitini Xuma
• Mandela personally approached the leader
• Mandela created a youth division with the leader.

1950'S ACTIVISM

• Involved in civil disobedience to the government
• The government tried to suppress the anti-apartheid fighters
• Later in the 1950's, he opened his own law firm
• He became a supporter of the freedom charter

RIVONIAN TRIAL AND PROTEST

• Mandela was banned from protesting
• Mandela was arrested with 10 other ANC leaders
• Mandela was accused for Civil Disobedience and burning his passbook
• Mandela was found not guilty but later on got arrested for life in prison
• Mandela made a very important speech which gained him a lot of followers during the Rivonia Trial

ROBBEN ISLAND

• Mandela was assigned a small cell
• Mandela was treated abusively
• Tried to keep up with current events outside
• Tried to brake him emotionally and physically
• He was in jail for 27 years

P.W. BOTHA OFFERS FREEDOM

• Mandela gets transferred to Polismoore prison
• P.W. Botha offers freedom to Nelson Mandela in this prison
• The deal was that he would be freed but he had to oppose majority rule
• Mandela declines even though he is free, his people aren't

F.W. DE KLERK MEETS AND fREES MANDELA

• De Klerk succeeded Botha after Botha had a stroke
• The fall of the Berlin Wall made De Klerk change his policy quickly
• Therefore he meet with Nelson Mandela in Prison to discuss his freedom
• He was going to be released unconditionally
• He is finally freed in 1990

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

• De Klerk and Mandela received it at the same time
• Mandela received it because he advocated reconciliation
• Mandela worked with De Klerk on the specific removal on the Apartheid policy
• Mandela supported the coalition government among all the racial groups
• Mandela received the Nobel prize in 1994

MANDELA GETS INAUGURATED

• He was by consent brought in as the new Post Apartheid of South Africa
• He governed as a moderate
• Mandela received some opposition from not only white groups
• Mandela as president was also an inrnational leader
• He was president from 1994-1999

FUTURE OF SOUTH AFRICA

• Currently, AIDS is a big problem of South Africa
• Modern South African is more fractured without Mandela

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE QUOTE

• This quote really defines Mandela's character
• Mandela was one of the few in history to let go of their bitterness
• Mandela embarrassed the people that treated him poorly
• Mandela realized that he had to fight both mental and physical imprisonment
• Mandela embarrassed his enemies as partners of the new South Africa

FACULTY MEMBER QUOTE

• Mr. Porciau "Nelson Mandela really cared for his people but other political leader they don't really care.
• This is what made Nelson Mandela a great leader."