Nelson Mandela's Timeline

1918: Nelson Mandela was born at Qunu, near Umtata
1944: Mandela helped found the ANC Youth League.
1949: Programme of Action was adopted by the ANC.
1952: Mandela and Tambo opened the first Black Law firm in South Africa.
1952: Defiance Campaign and later acts of sabotage.
1960: 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: eventually led to Mandela’s release.
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 Mandela was in President.
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