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Nelson Mandela University was founded through a merger of three institutions in January 2005, but its history dates back to 1882, with the foundation of the Port Elizabeth Art School. It is a comprehensive university offering professional and vocational training. The university has seven campuses – six in Gqeberha and one in George. The main ...
Recorded 4 October 1994. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela ( / mænˈdɛlə / man-DEH-lə; [1] Xhosa: [xolíɬaɬa mandɛ̂ːla]; born Rolihlahla Mandela; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, politician, and statesman who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's ...
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Children passing a Nelson Mandela wall mural in the Township Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa Alamy I spent a couple of months this summer researching and writing a children's biography, Nelson ...
Presented with the Alfonso Comin Foundation Peace Award in Barcelona, Spain. Freedom of the Borough of Islwyn, Wales, given to Winnie and Nelson Mandela. International Peace and Freedom Award by the Workers International Centre, Stockholm Sweden. Honorary Doctor of Literature, University of Calcutta.
e. The Rivonia Trial was a trial that took place in apartheid -era South Africa between 9 October 1963 and 12 June 1964, after a group of anti-apartheid activists were arrested on Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia. The farm had been the secret location for meetings of uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the newly-formed armed wing of the African National Congress ...
The presidency of Nelson Mandela began on 10 May 1994, when Nelson Mandela, an anti- apartheid activist, leader of uMkhonto we Sizwe, lawyer, and former political prisoner, was inaugurated as President of South Africa, and ended on 14 June 1999. He was the first non-White head of state in the history of South Africa, taking office at the age of 75.
Nelson Mandela University, university in Port Elizabeth, South Africa (formerly Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University) Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital, a teaching hospital in Mthatha, South Africa; Nelson Mandela High School, Sierra Leone, in Waterloo, Sierra Leone; Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology, university in ...