1918 - Nelson Mandela was born in Qunu, near Umtata.
1944 - Mandela helped found the ANC Youth League.
1949 - Programme of Action was adopted by the ANC.
1952 - Mandela with Tambo opened the first Black Law firm in South Africa.
1952 - Defiance Campaign and later acts of sabotage.
1960 - The Sharpeville massacre of 63 black South African’s changed the whole political climate.
1962 - Mandela had been arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in the notorious Robben Island prison.
1990 - Mandela was released.
1993 - Nelson Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with F.W. De Klerk.
1994 - Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the first democratically elected State President of South Africa.
1999 - Nelson Mandel's President role finished.
Turning points
- Go to University
- form ANC
- arrested
- released
- became president
- presidency completed
- eldest son died of HIV
- Nobel Peace Prize
Achievement
- Changed apartheid
- Reconciliation between White & Black
- Nobel Peace Prize
