Nelson Mandela Carl W Hart JORGE BENALCZAR 4A

Nelson Mandela Carl W Hart JORGE BENALCÁZAR 4”A”

Childhood As a child Nelson Mandela recalls playing with toys that they made themselves; moulding animals and birds out of clay and ox-drawn sledges out of tree branches. Nelson Mandela's father became friends with two brothers from the ama. Fengu tribe who were educated christians. They inspired Nelson Mandela's mother to convert to Christianity and Mandela was baptised into the Methodist Church and sent to school due to the influence of the brothers. When not in school the young Nelson Mandela would work as a plough boy, wagon guide, and shepard. In his spare time he recalls riding horses, shooting birds with slingshots and jousting with other boys. Some evenings would be spent dancing away to the singing and clapping of the Thembu maidens.

Nelson Peace prize The Nobel Peace Prize 1993 was awarded jointly to Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk "for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa"

MANDELA Before being elected president, Mandela was a militant anti-apartheid activist, and the leader and co-founder of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). In 1962 he was arrested and convicted of sabotage and other charges, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Nelson Mandela, an anti-apartheid activist, lawyer and former political prisoner, was elected to the presidency in 1994, following which he served one term in office. He was the first non-white head of state in South African history, as well as the first to take office following the dismantling of apartheid and the introduction of multiracial democracy; he was also the oldest head of state in South Africa's history, taking office at the age of 75.

Nelson Death � It is the day South Africans dread more than any other, and it is not a question of if but when. The death of Nelson Mandela will shake the nation to its core; the fact that death in old age does not fit the proper definition of "tragedy" will not console the millions who grew up with him as a constant, consoling presence.