Nelson Mandela

Turning points:

• His father died.
• Mandela had been arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in the notorious Robbin Island prison.
• Nelson Mandela lost his eldest son.

Achievements:

• Mandela finished his degree and qualified as a Lawyer.
• In 1952 Mandela opened the first Black Law firm in South Africa.
• Mandela was instrumental in pushing the ANC into more direct action such as the 1952 Defiance Campaign and later acts of sabotage.
• He helped to keep other Men’s spirits high and never compromised his political principles when offered earlt release. Towards the end of his prison spell his treatment improved as the South African establishment increasingly looked to negotiation, in the face of international isolation.
• on 10 May 1994 Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the first democratically elected State President of South Africa on and was President until June 1999.
• Nelson Mandela has continued to be an international figure of great stature.
• He is widely admired and has received many prestigious awards. 
• Nelson associated with many educational programmes and initiatives such as Make Poverty History Campaign.
• In 1993 Nelson Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with F.W. DE Clerk.

 1903: Born in India

1911: Went to St Cyprian's School in Eastbound

1917: Won a scholarship to Eton

1921: Joined the British police in Burma

1927: Grew dissatisfied and resigned

1928: Journeyed to Paris

1932-1933: Worked as a teacher in a small private school

1933: First book was published Down and Out in Paris and              London

1934: Got a part time job in a second hand bookshop

1934: First novel Burmese Days was published

1935: Another novel published

1936: Married Eileen

1936: Write a book about poverty in northern England

1936: Socialist left for spin to fight in the Spanish Civil War

1937: The Road to Wigan Pier was published

1938: Wrote a Homage to Catalonia

1938: Suffering from tuberculosis

1938-1939: Spent the winter in Morocco

1939: Another novel was published

1941-1943: Worked for the BBC

1943: Literary editor for the Tribune a left wing                                 magazine

1945: great satire Animal Farm was published

1949: Masterpiece

1949: Married his second wife Sonia

1950: Died

1984: Masterpiece was published