Timeline of Nelson Mandela

• 18 July 1918 - Nelson Mandela was born at Qunu, near Umata.
• 1944 - helped found the ANC Youth League, whose programme of Action was adopted by the ANC in 1949.
• 1950's -the S.A state had become increasingly repressive making it more difficult for the ANC to operate.
• 1950's - Mandela and several others were charged with treason.
• 1952 - Mandela and Tambo opened the first Black Law firm in South Africa.
• 1960 - the 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 - Mandela has been realised from prison.
• 1993 - Nelson Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with F.W. de Klerk.
• 10/05/1994 - Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the first democratically elected State President of South Africa on and was President until June 1990.