1918, 18 July
Born at Mvezo in the Transkei
1925
Attends primary school near Qunu. Teacher wants all children to have a Christian name so gives him the name ‘Nelson’
1927
Entrusted to Nkosi Jongintaba Dalindyebo, the acting Regent of the Thembu people at the Great Place at Mqhekezweni
1934
Undergoes initiation; Goes to Clarkebury Boarding Institute in Engcobo
1937
Goes to Healdtown, the Wesleyan College at Fort Beaufort
1939
Enrolls at the University College of Fort Hare, in Alice
1940
Expelled
1941
Escapes an arranged marriage, becomes a mine night watchman in Johannesburg; Lives in Alexandra. Starts articles at the law firm Witkin, Sidelsky & Eidelman
1942
Completes BA through the University of South Africa (UNISA). Writes the exams at Fort Hare
1943
Enrolls for an LLB at Wits University; Graduates with a BA at Fort Hare
1944
Co-founds the ANC Youth League (ANCYL); Marries Evelyn Ntoko Mase – they have four children: Thembekile (1945); Makaziwe (1947 – who dies after nine months); Makgatho (1950); Makaziwe (1954)
1948
Elected national secretary of the ANCYL
1951
Elected President of the ANCYL
1952
Defiance Campaign begins. Mandela is arrested; Elected Transvaal ANC President; Arrested for violating the Suppression of Communism Act; Opens own law office; Convicted with J S Moroka, Walter Sisulu and 17 others under the Suppression of Communism Act; Sentenced to nine months imprisonment with hard labour, suspended for two years; Qualifies with a diploma allowing him to work as an attorney and is employed by law firm HM Basner; Elected the first of two ANC deputy presidents; Opens South Africa’s first black law firm with Oliver Tambo
1953
Devises the M-Plan for the ANC’s future underground operations
1955
Watches as the Congress of the People at Kliptown launches the Freedom Charter
1956
Arrested and joins 155 others on trial for Treason. The trial lasts four-and-a-half years
1958
Divorces Evelyn Mase; Marries Nomzamo Winnie Madikizela – they have two daughters: Zenani (1959) and Zindziswa (1960)
1960
A state of emergency is imposed after the Sharpeville Massacre. Mandela is amongst thousands detained. The ANC is banned
1961
Goes underground after he and 29 remaining accused in the Treason Trial are acquitted; Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) formed
1962
In January he leaves the country for military training;
In July he returns to South Africa via Botswana and drives to Liilesleaf Farm in Rivonia
He travels to KwaZulu-Natal to report back to ANC President Chief Albert Luthuli and other comrades
He is arrested near Howick, KwaZulu-Natal on 5 August
On 7 November he is sentenced to five years for incitement and leaving the country illegally and assigned the prisoner number 19476/62
1963
He is sent to Robben Island in May, brought back to Pretoria after two weeks
In October he is charged with sabotage with nine others in what becomes known as the Rivonia Trial. The other co-accused are: Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki, Ahmed Kathrada, Raymond Mhlaba, Denis Goldberg, Elias Motsoaledi, Rusty Bernstein, Andrew Mlangeni, James Kantor
1964
On 20 April, he makes his famous speech from the dock in which he says he is “prepared to die” for a democratic South Africa
On 11 June, all except Bernstein and Kantor are convicted
On 12 June, Mandela and seven others are sentenced to life imprisonment and all, except Goldberg, are sent to Robben Island to serve their sentences. Goldberg, as the only white person convicted in the trial, is held in Pretoria Central Prison. Mandela is assigned the prisoner number 466/64
1968
Mandela’s mother, Fanny Nosekeni, dies
1969
Thembekile killed in a car accident
1982
Mandela, Sisulu, Mhlaba and Mlangeni and later Kathrada sent to Pollsmoor Prison
1985
Rejects P W Botha offers to release him if he renounces violence; Prostate surgery
1988, August
Contracts TB and is admitted to Tygerberg Hospital for six weeks; (December): Admitted to Constantiaberg MediClinic. December: Moved to Victor Verster Prison
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2002, Launches global HIV AIDS campaign 46664
1990, 11 February
Released
1991
Elected ANC President
1993
Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with FW De Klerk
1994, 27 April
Votes for the first time in his life; Elected as first president of a democratic South Africa (9 May); Inaugurated as President (10 May)
1995
Establishes the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund
1996
Divorces Winnie Mandela
People of Howick conferred the Honorary Freedom of the town on President Mandela.
1998, 18 July
Marries Graca Machel on his 80th birthday
1999
Steps down after one term as president; establishes the Nelson Mandela Foundation
2001
Diagnosed with prostate cancer
2002
Launches global HIV AIDS campaign 46664
2003
Establishment of the Mandela Rhodes Foundation
2004, 2 June
Announces that he will be stepping down from public life
2005, 6 June
Makgatho dies. Mandela announces that he died of an AIDS-related illness
2006
Centre of Memory and Dialogue approved as the core work of the Nelson Mandela Foundation
2007
Grandson Mandlesizwe Mandela invested as Nkosi Zwelivelile of Mvezo; inauguration of the Nelson Mandela Institute for Education and Rural Development
2008
Turns 90 years old, asks the emerging generation to continue the fight for social justice
2009
Attends the inauguration of South Africa’s fourth democratically elected president Jacob Zuma; Turns 91; receives copies of the children’s version of his autobiography from his great-grandson Ziyanda Manaway
2010
Attends a reunion gathering at his home in Johannesburg to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his release from prison;(June) attends the funeral of his great-granddaughter Zenani, 13, who was killed in a car accident; (July) makes a surprise appearance of the final match of the Fifa World Cup at Soccer City in Soweto
2011
27 January
Illness in 2011 (routine tests)
The media has been abuzz, and South Africa in consternation, with the news of former president Nelson Mandela’s deteriorating health. Archbishop Desmond Tutu recently said he had been to visit the former statesman and found him to be frail as he is old (92-years-old).
On 26 January, Sello Hatang, spokesperson for the Nelson Mandela Foundation, released a statement saying that Mandela had been admitted to Milpark Hospital, Johannesburg, for routine tests, was fine and in good spirits. This followed reports with more speculation on Mandela’s reasons for his hospital admission.
Also on 26 January, The Star newspaper reported that Mandela was seen by a pulmonologist. Professor Michael Plit, a pulmonologist (dealing with respiratory disease issues) and also the former President’s personal physician at Milpark Hospital, confirmed to the paper that he’d seen Mandela on 25 January. However, he would not give any further information.
On the National Asthma Education Programme website, Plit describes his medical interests as obstructive lung diseases, such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Mandela’s personal assistant Zelda Le Grange arrived at the hospital around 9am on Thursday 27 January 2011. Photographers surrounded her car as she was ushered into the hospital by security guards. Police tightened security at the hospital and kept out scores of journalists, photographers and cameramen, who were left to wait in the street leading up to the hospital. Traffic was backed up as officials searched vehicles for cameras. ANC officials were planning to visit the former president some time on Thursday, E-news reported.
When asked for confirmation by Sapa, ANC spokesman Jackson Mthembu said the matter was between the ANC, the hospital and the family. Various family members, Mandela’s wife Graca Machel, his eldest grandson chief Mandla Mandela, daughter Zindzi, and a number of grand- and great-grandchildren visited him on Wednesday 25 January, The Star reported. The Business Day reported Mandela’s former wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and his former personal assistant Jessie Duarte also visited the hospital. A black Mercedes-Benz with a Cape Town registration, was seen arriving at the hospital on Thursday morning. Security guards were overheard saying “they VIP”. One man, an avid fan of Madikizela-Mandela, was at the hospital on Thursday hoping to speak to his long-time idol. He was at the hospital on Wednesday quizzing journalists and dropping names of ANC heavyweights in a bid to get more information.
Beeld newspaper reported that it appeared Mandela was in the hospital’s private unit for burn victims. The unit’s windows were covered to ensure privacy and only one person was allowed in at a time. CNN reported on Wednesday night that Mandela was flown from Cape Town to Milpark Hospital and brought to the hospital by military ambulance. Hospital spokeswoman Erin Walsh would not comment.”It is our policy to respect patients and we would not give any details about the admission to anyone expect the family,” she said. The Star reported that a Facebook post by Mandela’s granddaughter, Zoleka Mandela, read: “I really hate to see you this way. It kills me each time. Know that i’m here for you as I believe you have always been there for me. You are never alone in this. We are all with you each and every step of the way. All you need to do is remember that you us at your back (sic) and call. I love you. You already know this. Spending my next few days with you just so I know that you’ll be ok! I’m saddened… .” The Foundation issued a brief statement just after 4pm on Wednesday reading: “We can confirm that Mr Mandela is at Milpark Hospital undergoing routine tests. He is in no danger and is in good spirits.”There had been no further word from the Foundation by 9.30am on Thursday.
Mandela is currently convalescing at home.
2012
Hospitalisation and home-based care
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Mandela is admitted twice to hospital and receives home-based
care in between. He spends 18 days in hospital in December for a lung infection
and surgery to remove gallstones before he was released from hospital on 26
December 2012.The Office of the Presidency released a statement that the
nonagenarian had recovered sufficiently enough to be released from hospital.
On 28 December 2012 his family said Mandela was doing well
at home.
2013
April
Fight for Mandela’s
millions
The Star newspaper reports that the children of Nelson
Mandela have launched a court case against several business associates of the
former president in a dispute over the control of two companies.
According to the newspaper the case was filed in the
Johannesburg High Court by Mandela’s daughters, Makaziwe and Zenani.
The court papers reportedly said lawyers George Bizos and
Bally Chuene, and businessman Tokyo Sexwale, had no right to remain as
directors of companies whose main purpose was to channel funds from the sale of
94-year-old Nelson Mandela’s handprints.
Later, Prominent lawyer George Bizos labelled a suit against
him and his colleagues by Nelson Mandela’s daughters as a ploy to “resuscitate”
the sale of the artworks.
Bizos accused Ayob of paying R150 000 each into Zenani and
Makaziwe’s accounts from a Mandela trust account without his authorisation.
He told The Star that Ayob was later ordered to pay back the
money from his own pocket.
ANC, SABC criticised
for Mandela video footage broadcast
The SABC broadcast a video of former President, Nelson
Mandela at his home in Houghton. The video showed Mandela in an armchair, his
head propped up by a pillow, his legs on a footrest and covered by a blanket.
Social media and talk radio shows buzzed with angry comments
that the party had been disrespectful by showing footage of the 94-year-old
anti-apartheid icon looking vacant, grey-skinned and unsmiling.
Spokesman Jackson Mthembu said it didn’t make sense to say
South Africa’s governing party was using the occasion as an electioneering tool
as it gears up for elections next year.
Mthembu said the party would also have been criticized if it
had not broadcast the video.
June
The nation holds its
breath as Mandela’s condition slides from serious to critical
On 08 June 2013, former President Nelson Mandela was
admitted in hospital again due to a lung infection, according to the
presidency, in a “serious but stable” condition.
On 12 June 2013, there was a bit of relief and hope as SA
President, Jacob Zuma told Parliament that that Mandela was “responding well to
treatment” after a “difficult few days.”
On 23 June 2013, the nation and the entire world were shaken
when the Presidency announced Mandela’s condition had worsened and the
situation had become critical.
On 24 June 2013, President Jacob Zuma tells the media,
“Doctors are doing everything possible to ensure his wellbeing and
comfort.”
The world’s icon, that breathed fresh air of hope, tolerance
and reconciliation in South Africa, remains critical as the nation holds its
breath, and continues to pray!
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