Street art in San Francisco shows Nelson Mandela addressing the massive crowd who greeted him on the Grand Parade as he gave his first speech, from a Cape Town city hall balcony, after his release on 11 February from 27 years in prison. His birth name is Rolihlahla. Nelson Mandela with his class at Healdtown College circa to Mandela is in the back row, fifth from right.
South African History Online. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. Why she bestowed this particular name upon me I have no idea. Perhaps it had something to do with the great British sea captain Lord Nelson, but that would be only a guess. Nelson Mandela in Mthatha in , aged In his autobiography Mandela recalls his father dying when he was nine. He was Mandela becomes the ward of the Thembu regent, paramount chief Jongintaba Dalindyebo.
He enrols in the Clarkebury Boarding Institute in Engcobo. Here he meets Oliver Tambo. Sisulu recommends Mandela for employment as an articled clerk at the law firm Witkin, Sidelsky and Eidelmana, and the two become firm friends. Mandela was best man. Mandela and Mase were to marry three months later, on 5 October The baby dies nine months later.
Apartheid becomes official government policy. This bans the South African Communist Party. Have You Heard From Johannesburg. The Peto Collection , University of Dundee.
The marathon Treason Trial of to followed. All charges were eventually dropped. The reaction is immediate, with demonstrations, protest marches, strikes and riots across South Africa. Sixty-nine people were shot dead by police and a further wounded. He would only be free again in , 28 years later. The site near Howick where Nelson Mandela was captured in is today marked by a steel sculpture of his face, which can only be clearly viewed from a specific angle.
