7/28/2019 Profile of Nelson Mandela

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Early years

Emerging as leader

Prisoner 466/64

Family

Born July 18, 1918 Sonof a tribal chief councillor

1942 Suspended from

university studiesdue to political

involvement

1952 Law degree

1944 Helped found African National Congress(ANC) Youth League advocating boycott,strike, civil disobedience against white rule

1951-52 ANC Youth League president

During the 1950s Banned, arrestedand imprisoned several times

Married three times;six children; current

wife is GracaMachel, widow of

MozambicanPresident Samora

Machel

2004 Retires frompublic life

2007 Launchesinternational group of

elder statesman totackle world problems

2010 Last public appearanceat closing ceremony of World

Cup in South Africa

1962 Arrested, convictedof sabotage; sentenced to five years

1964 Charged again, sentenced to life;spent two decades on Robben Island

1990 Released from prison

Negotiating peace

Later life

1993 Accepts Nobel Peace Prize(along with F. W. de Klerk)

1994 Era of apartheid formally ends with first free elections;elected first black president of a democratic South Africa

1999 Steps down as president after one term