NELSON ROLIHLAHLA MANDELA

Valeria Barón Rincón

11-02
 Personal
information
Birth: July 18,
1918 in Mvezo,
South African
Union
Death:
December 5,
2013 (95 years)
in
Johannesburg,
South Africa
Nickname:
Madiba.
Cause of
death: Diseases
of the
respiratory
system.
 FUN FACTS
In 1942, at 24 years, he graduated as a lawyer at the
University of the Witwatersrand.

He had six children and three of them are dead.

In 1952 he opened the first African law firm in the

country.

He was the first black president in his country.

He was in jail for the separation of black and white people.

In 1993, Mandela received the Nobel Peace Prize for his

message of reconciliation and coexistence between races.

He was the first person alive to receive an honorary

citizenship in Canada.
 HISTORY IN PRISION
 On August 5, 1962, the police captured Mandela with Cecil
Williams. Once imprisoned in Johannesburg in Marshall
Square prison, he was accused of inciting the workers' strike
and leaving the country without permission. He defended
himself and chose Slovo as his legal assistant, and sought to
use the trial as a form of "moral opposition of the ANC to
racism." He also had demonstrations of support for his person
outside the courthouse.
 Mandela and the other sentenced were transferred from
Pretoria to the prison located on Robben Island, where they
would remain for 18 years. In fact, he was classified as a class
D prisoner, the youngest of the degrees in the prison and
allowed to receive a visit, and a letter every six months.
 After recovering from an attack of tuberculosis accentuated by
the humidity of his cell, in 1988 Mandela was transferred to
the prison of Víctor Verster near Paarl. There he lived with the
comforts of a security guard, since he had a cook at his
service and had time to complete his studies and finally on
February 11, Mandela left the prison.
He lasted 27 years
in prison and was
in 3 different
prisons during that
time.