Nelson Mandela

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Nelson Mandela

• And his long Walk to Freedom

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1. Biographie

• Birthday 18. July 1918 in Qunu, Transkei
• His father Henry Mgdala Mandela is an deputy
  leader of the Thembulands
• After the death of his father he becomes a leader
  of election district
• After his school qualifications he goes to
  university of Fort Hare to become lawyer
• He is a member in the council of students
• In 1940 he take part in a protest campaign and as
  consequence he is banished from the university
• In 1942 he becomes a member of the African
  National Congress (ANC)

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1. Biographie

• 1944 he helps to found the ANCYL (the youth
  league of the ANC)
• 1948 he is ANCYL member (ANC youth league)
• In 1950 Nelson becomes ANCYL President
• In 1952 he becomes ANC Transvaal President and
  National Vice-president
• 1952 he founds the first black lawyers office
  with his partner Oliver Tambo
• Nelson Mandela realizes that the way of the
  Apartheid regime isnt a way of law and fairness,
  thus he becomes an enemy of the regime
• He is accused in the famous trial of the south
  African government against the ANC

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1. Biographie

• After the Sharpville Massacre in 1960 the ANC is
  banished as an political party Nelson Mandela is
  in prison until 1961
• After his release from prison he leads the
  Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), which is the military
  branch of the ANC
• In 1962 he leaves the country to start a military
  training in Angola
• In Angola he leads the training of other MK
  members
• On his return he is arrested
• After his first charge he has to stay 5 five
  years in prison, but after the Rivonia trial he
  gets life imprisonment

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• In 1964 are nearly the whole leading figures of
  the ANC condemn to life imprisonment
• First prison Robben Island, characterize by
  inhumane, callous and brutal treatment
• Second prison Pollsmor (in 1982) means the way
  back to life and first visitors
• Third prison in the near of Paarl in 1988
  Nelson can leave his house, he has a few rooms
  and he often has guests
• Frederik de Klerk becomes the first chairman of
  the national party and president at the 20.9.1989

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• He prompts that Nelson Mandela is released from
  prison at the 11.2.1990
• After his release he makes his historical speech
• All the other ANC members are released, too and
  the banishment from the ANC is abolished
• In 1991 he becomes ANC President
• In 1993 Nelson Mandela and Frederik de Klerk get
  the Peace Nobel Prize
• In 1994 the first democratically elections take
  place, where all south Africans can take part
• In 1994 Nelson Mandela becomes president of the
  Republic of south Africa

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• Mandela leads the reorganization of the state and
  the society away from Apartheid und the minority
  government
• he fights for the national and international
  reconciliation
• ?Government of National Unity (GNU)
• ?Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
• In 1999 he resigns from his office as president
• After his resign he works as lawyer for several
  humane rights organisations
• He gets several honours (par example Order of St.
  John and Presidential Medal of Freedom)

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Nelson Mandela

• He gives his live for his country
• his personal walk to freedom
• becomes the walk to freedom for a whole nation
• Thank you for your
  attention
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