Friday 6 December 2013

Madiba (1918 - 2013)






Nelson Mandela Timeline:

July 18, 1918 
Born Rolihlahla Mandela into Thembu royal family in Mvezo village in the south-east of South Africa.

1940
Expelled from Fort Hare University College for participating in student strike.

1941 
Moves to Johannesburg, becomes mine policeman.

1943 
Joins African National Congress (ANC).

1944 
Marries Evelyn Mase.

1952 
Opens first black law practice in Johannesburg with Oliver Tambo.

1956
Among 156 political activists arrested and charged with treason.

1958
Marries social worker Nomzamo Zaniewe Winifred "Winnie" Madikizela, having divorced Mase in 1954.

March 21, 1960
Security forces massacre 67 protesters in Sharpeville. Government bans ANC and Pan African Congress and declares state of emergency.

1961 
Acquitted in treason trial, along with co-accused.

December 16, 1961 
Launch of ANC's armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation), with Mr Mandela as commander-in-chief.

August 5, 1962 
Captured and sentenced on November 7 to five years in prison for incitement to strike and leaving country illegally, having earlier travelled to Ethiopia and Algeria for military training.

1963 
While serving this sentence is charged with sabotage along with other ANC activists arrested in Rivonia near Johannesburg.

June 12, 1964 
After famous speech from dock (democracy "is an ideal for which I am prepared to die"), is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to Robben Island prison off Cape Town.

July 5, 1989 
Meets president PW Botha and then on December 13 with FW de Klerk, who later succeeds Botha.

February 11, 1990 
Released from prison.

July 5, 1991 
Elected ANC president.

April, 1992 
Separated from wife Winnie.

October 15, 1993 
Wins Nobel Peace Prize with De Klerk.

April 27, 1994 
Votes for the first time in his life in the country's first all-race elections.

May 10, 1994 
Inaugurated as president.

July 18, 1998 
Marries Graca Machel, widow of Mozambican president Samora Machel.

1999 
Steps down as president after one term.

June 1, 2004 
Announces his retirement from public life.

January 6, 2005 
Announces that his son Makgatho had died of AIDS.

April 19, 2009 
Makes his final political address in a recorded message at an ANC election rally.

July 11, 2010 
Appears at the closing ceremony of the football World Cup in South Africa.

May 30, 2012 
Makes rare television appearance to receive symbolic flame marking the ANC centenary.

July 18, 2013 
Celebrates his 95th birthday in hospital.

December 6, 2013 
Dies at his home in Johannesburg surrounded by family, at the age 95

RIP 




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