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A timeline of the 95-year life of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela – revolutionary, soldier, political prisoner, president of South Africa, statesman and global icon of social justice.
Street art in San Francisco shows Nelson Mandela addressing the massive crowd who greeted him on the Grand Parade as he gave his first speech, from a Cape Town city hall balcony, after his release on 11 February 1990 from 27 years in prison.
(Julie Pimentel, CC BY-NC 2.0)
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1910s
18 July 1918 – Nelson Mandela born in Mvezo, Eastern Cape province, South Africa. His mother, Nonqaphi Fanny Nosekeni, is one of four wives of his father, Mphakanyiswa Gadla Henry Mandela, a “chief by both blood and custom“.
His birth name is Rolihlahla.
In isiXhosa it literally translates as “pulling the branch of a tree”. But colloquially, it means “troublemaker“.
1920s
1925 – Mandela begins primary school near his home vil