Nelson Mandela
1918-2013
About Mandela
Nelson Mandela was born July 18, 1918 in South Africa. He was a very important part of South Africa's history. He was committed to what he believed in and was not letting anyone take it from him. Even when he was in prison and they offered to release him if he told everyone that he was not supporting the ANC anymore. He was in prison for 27 years with his best friend Walter Sisulu. Every time he was transferred to a different prison Sisulu came with intel he went to Victor Vester Prison. When he was there he was in a prison house and that is when president FW de Klerk came to see Mandela and someone took a picture and showed people and said " While you are starving and in prison Mandela is living in a nice house". After 27 years in prison he was finally released he said that Sisulu had to be let out first and that he would leave when he was ready. So after 5 days he said that he was ready to leave. When he left he had his wife Winnie was right by him. Then when the election time came around all the black citizens were aloud to vote and Mandela ran for president and he won. He made things really different in South Africa for everyone. Then when he served his term he started using money to help with the search of ads in South Africa.
By: Danielle
Walter Sisulu
Oliver Tambo
Nelson Mandela
Why he was important
By Ellianah.A.
My citation
The ANC national league
Well the ANC stands for African National Congress
Apartheid
Well it means a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race.
Some of the apartheid laws were
2.There was a immorality amendment act.
3.There was a population registration act.
4.There was a group areas act.
5.There was a suppression of communism act.
When did apartheid start and end?
Mandela In Prison
While Nelson Mandela was in prison in Robben Island he had his best friend Walter Sisulu. Then on March 31, 1982 Nelson and Sisulu and several other people were transferred to Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town. When he was in prison on August 12th, 1988 he was taken to the hospital and the doctor said he had tuberculosis. After three months in two Hospitals he was transferred to a house at Victor Vester Prison on December 7th, 1988. Then in 1993 President FW de Klerk let Mandela was let out of prison, but he said that they had to let out Sisulu first then he would come out of prison.
http://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2013/12/05/mandela/ By: Danielle
When did Nelson Mandela become president?
what three important things did Nelson Mandela do in his life?
1942- Nelson Mandela joined the African National Congress or ANC for short
1993- Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem De Klerk earned the nobel peace prize for their hard work ending apartheid.