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Long Walk to Freedom

Created by kmcmillin06 on Apr 16, 2011

Last updated: 04/16/11 at 04:33 PM

• Dipity Timeline Created
  Apr 16, 2011 3:39 PM

• First Black President of SA
  1994

  April 26: Free Elections where black South Africans are allowed to vote for the first time. Nelson Mandela runs for President The ANC won 252 of the 400 seats in the national assembly. May: Inaugurated as the first black president of South Africa.

• President of ANC
  1991

  Becomes President of the African National Congress ( ANC )

• A Free Man
  1990

  February 11: Nelson Mandela is released from prison after 27 years. President De Klerk lifts the ban on the African National Congress (ANC). The ANC and the white National Party begin talks on forming a multi-racial democracy for South Africa.

• Captured
  1964

  June 12: Captured and convicted of sabotage and treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the age of 46, initially on Robben island where he would be kept for 18 years.

• On The Run
  1962

  August 5: Arrested after living on the run for seventeen months and was imprisoned in the Johannesburg Fort. October 25: Nelson Mandela was sentenced to five years in prison but again goes on the run.

• Hiding
  1960

  Sharpeville Massacre: Police kill 69 peaceful protestors and the ANC is banned. Mandela goes into hiding and forms an underground military group with armed resistance.

• Re-Marries
  1958

  Marries Nomzamo "Winnie" Madikizela, a social worker, and the couple have two children. Their marriage ended in separation in April 1992 and divorce in March 1996

• Marriage Ends
  1957

  Marriage of thirteen years ends. Wife leaves him taking their children and all the furnishings.

• Accused of Conspiracy
  1956

  December 5: Accused of conspiring to overthrow the South African state by violent means with 155 other political activists and charged with high treason. The Treason Trial of 1956–61 follows and all were acquitted

• Opens Legal Firm
  1952

  Opens the first black legal firm in South Africa with fellow lawyer Oliver Tambo providing free or low-cost legal counsel to many blacks who would otherwise have been without legal representation. Mandela was prominent in the ANC's 1952 Defiance Campaign

• Joins ANC & Marriage
  1943

  Joins the African National Congress (ANC) as an activist. Forms the Youth League of the ANC with Oliver Tambo and Walter Sislu. Marries his first wife Evelyn Ntoko Mase.

• Tough Schooling
  1943

  Enrolls at University of the Witwatersrand. As the only black law student he encounters mixed racist and liberal attitudes. Did poorly academically.

• Forced to Leave
  1939

  Asked to leave Fort Hare due to his involvement in a boycott of the Students' Representative Council against the university policies. He leaves to avoid an arranged marriage also.

• College
  1937

  He attends the Weslayan College at Healdtown near Ft. Beaufort at 19 years old. largest school for Africans South of equator, also a mission school. He mentions his education at the University of Fort Hare, and his practice of law later on. 1939 at 21 y/o, he moves on to University College at Fort Hare in Alice municipality near Healdtown--it is the only residential center of higher learning for blacks in South Africa.

• School
  1934

  Soon after he attends Clarkebury Boarding Institute where he is mocked by the other students for being a country boy.

• Father's Death
  1927

  His father dies of lung disease when Madela is only 9 years old.

• Birth
  Jul 18, 1918

  He was born in South Africa to the Thembu dynasty cheif. He was raised to be the counselor of the future king, he was not in line to be the hereditary king.