Ghandi

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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela may well be the man of the century. Courage, and commitment, dignity and grace, selflessness and endurance- a hero beyond description. A man who spent almost twenty- seven years in prison. A man who was able to lead his people to freedom, shake the pillars of apartheid state of South Africa from his jail cell.

I believe that Gondi is a great individual and I will demonstrate that through the following sequence of events.

Nelson Mandela was born July 18, 1918 in Qunu, a tiny village in the valley of Transkei, the old tribal homeland of the Xhosh people. His father was a chief of the Tembu clan. Mandela was brought up in African traditions.

Between 1934 and 1941 Mandela attended tribal school, then the university college of Fort Hare in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Here he formed a life long friendship with Oliver Tambo. In his first step into politics he was elected to the Fort Hare student council and participated in a student boycott for which he was suspended.

In 1942 Mandela lived with Walter and Albertina Sisulu in what is now Soweto and began articling with a white Johannesburg law firm.

In 1944 Mandela married a lady named Evelyn by w

In a few minutes Mandela had moved from the past to be very much in the present. He had done it from behind bars.

In 1960 occured the Sharpeville massacre. "Police opened fire on unarmed demonstraters and killed 69 black people. This resulted in a political and economic crisis in South Africa. It also caused world attention to be focused on the country" (Schiller, 1998, p. A5). White South Africans voted to break all ties with Britain and became an independant republic.

With 155 others Mandela is held between 1956 - 1961 on treason charges. The famous treason trails lasted five years and ended in acquittals. "Midway through the trial in 1958 Mandela divorced Ntoko and married Nomzamo Winifred Madikezela." (Freeman, 1998, p. A17).

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