PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Nelson mandela was born July 18, 1918. Mandela was born into a royal family of the Xhosa-speaking Thembu Tribe in the Sout h African village of Muezo.
Nelsons father was Gadla Henry (1880-1928) served AS chief. His mother Nosekeni Fanny, was the third of Mphakaryiswa four wives. Nelson had six sisters and two brothers. Mandela was married three times. He had four children with Evely Mase. And two children with Winnie Mandela.
Nelson Mandela had nine sisters and four brothers. After the death of his father in 1927, 9 year old Nelson Mandela then known by his birth name Rolihlahla-was adopted by Jongintaba Dalindyebo a high-ranking thembu regent. Mandela was the first in his family to receive a formal education. Nelson completed his primary studies at a local missionary school. There, a teacher called him Nelson as part of a common practice of giving African students English names. He went to attend the Clarkebury Boarding institute and Heal Down, a Methodist secondary school where he excelled in boxing and track and as well as academic in 1939. Nelson entered the elite university of Fort Hare, the only western-style higher learning institute for South African blacks at the time.
From the time Mandela came under the guardianships of regent Jongintaba, he was groomed to assume high office, not as a chief , but a counselor to one. As Thembu royalty, Mandela attended a Wesleyan mission school, the Clarkebury Boarding Institute and Wesleyan college, where, he would later state, he achieved academic success through " plain hard work". He also excelled at track and boxing.
