A HERO

                                   NELSON MANDELA

                                           

   FAMOUS AS

Anti-Apartheid Activist, President of ANC and Former President of South Africa

NATIONALITY

South African    Famous South African Men

RELIGION

Christianity (Methodism)

POLITICAL IDEOLOGY

African National Congress

BORN ON

18 July 1918 AD

BIRTHDAY

18th July    Famous 18th July Birthdays    Historical Events On 18th July

DIED AT AGE

95

SUN SIGN

Cancer    Cancer Men

BORN IN

Mvezo

DIED ON

05 December 2013 AD

FATHER

Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa

MOTHER

Nosekeni Fanny

       

                                  

SPOUSES/PARTNERS:

Graça Machel (m. 1998), Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (m. 1958–1996), Evelyn Ntoko (m. 1944–1958

CHILDREN

Makgatho Mandela, Makaziwe Mandela, Zindziswa Mandela, Zenani Mandela, Madiba Thembekile Mandela

EDUCATION

University of Fort Hare
University of London External System
University of South Africa
University of the Witwatersrand

AWARDS

1980 - Jawaharlal Nehru Award
1993 - Noble Prize
1990 - Bharat Ratna Award

Top 10 Facts You Did Not Know About Nelson Mandela

• Nelson Mandela was the first member of his family to attend school.
  
• He, along with Oliver Tambo, set up South Africa's first law firm run by blacks in 1952.
  
• Nelson’s Mandela’s favorite dish was tripe—the stomach lining of farm animals.
  
• He was often referred to as “the Black Pimpernel” for his ability to disguise himself in order to evade 
• arrest. He frequently adopted the disguises of a fieldworker, a chauffeur, or a chef.
• He was a great communicator and devised a way of passing secret notes to other prisoners while he
•  was incarcerated on the infamous Robben Island.
• He believed that sports were great means of bringing the racially divided country together.
  
• A prehistoric woodpecker, Australopithecus Nelson Mandela, is named after him.
  
• Mandela was once on the U.S. terror watch list because of his militant fight against apartheid.
  
• Nelson Mandela appeared in a cameo as a school teacher in the 1992 movie ‘Malcolm X’.
  
• Mandela was the recipient of more than 250 awards, including honorary degrees from more than 50
  
•  universities worldwide.