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1. This man that changed the world grew up in a tiny village andwas the first member of his family to attend school |
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2. In 1952, Mandela and Oliver Tambo set up South Africa's first black-run law firm |
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3. He started off as a pacifist — then took up arms. |
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4. Mandela was a master of disguise and a genius at evading arrest |
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5. He was dressed in a chauffeur's outfit when he was finally arrested. |
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6. In prison, he was highly skilled at secretly passing notes |
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7.He had a chance to get out of prison — and declined, on principle. |
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8.When he finally got out, he only strengthened his fight against Apartheid. |
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Aaron Casey Nymag.com 9. He appeared in a Spike Lee film |
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10. But he refused to deliver a certain line of Lee's script |
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Aaron Casey Nymag.com 11. He worked as hard to make peace as he did to bring down Apartheid |
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12. His policies saved and improved innumerable lives |
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nymag.com 13. He used sports to bring the racially divided country together. |
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Aaron Casey biography.yourdictionary.com |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 22. Rolihlahla means “to pull a branch of a tree”, or more colloquially, “troublemaker”. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 23. Nelson Mandela was born under the Zodiac sign Cancer on July 18, 1918. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 24. Nelson Mandela was born in Mveso, Umtata (capital of Transkei) in Cape Province. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 25. Nelson Mandela was born in Mveso, Umtata (capital of Transkei) in Cape Province. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 26. Nelson’s paternal great-grandfather Ngubengcuka ruled as king of the Thembu people. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 27. The father of Nelson had four wives, with whom he fathered 13 children – 4 boys and 9 girls. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 28. His mother, Nosekeni Fanny, is the third wife of his father Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 29. Rolihlahla Mandela became the first member of his family to attend a school. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 30. Nelson Mandela’s father died of TB or tuberculosis when he was 9 years of age. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 31. When his father died Jongintaba (regent) became his guardian |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 32. Nelson Mandela is often known as Madiba, an honorary title adopted by elders of his clan, in his native in South Africa. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 33. He completed his Junior Certificate in two years, instead of the usual three. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 34. He completed his Junior Certificate in two years, instead of the usual three. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 35. He enrolled at the University College of Fort Hare for the Bachelor of Arts Degree where he was elected onto the Student’s Representative Council |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 36. Nelson was suspended from college for joining in a protest boycott. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 37. When he was 19, he participated in boxing and marathon in school. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 38. After his suspension, Jongintaba announced to Mandela and Justice (the regent's son and heir to the throne) that he had arranged marriages for both of them. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 39. Mandela was displeased by the arrangement and chose to runaway and stayed in Johannesburg. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 40. Nelson’s first job was as a guard at a mine but quickly terminated by his employee upon learning that he was the Regent’s runaway ward. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 41. His second job was as an articled clerk at Whitkin, Sidelsky and Edelman law firm in Johannesburg. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 42. Nelson finished his B.A. degree via correspondence at the University of South Africa. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 43. Mandela studied for a Bachelor of Laws while in prison from the University of London External Programme. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 44. In 1952 Mandela and Tambo had opened the first black legal firm in South Africa. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 45. Mandela and 150 others were arrested on December 5, 1956 and charged with treason. They were all acquitted in 1961. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 46. During his years of hiding, to evade arrest, Mandela adopted different forms of disguises that earned him the title of the “Black Pimpernel” |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 47. During his years of hiding, to evade arrest, Mandela adopted different forms of disguises that earned him the title of the “Black Pimpernel” |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 48. Nelson Mandela was arrested and convicted of sabotage and other charges in 1962. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 49. He was imprisoned for 27 years and was released in 1990, 18 years of which were spent in the Robben Island – that eventually came to be so-called “Mandela University”. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 50. In prison, Mandela never compromised his political principles and was always a source of strength for the other prisoners. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 51. Mandela was as a D-group prisoner, the lowest classification, where he was allowed one visitor and one letter (often made unreadable by the prison censors) every six months. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 52.Mandela was offered his freedom in 1985 by President Botha but turned it down and released a statement saying “What freedom am I being offered while the organization of the people remains banned? Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.” |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 53. It was President De Klerk who announced Mandela's release in February 1990. This historic event was broadcast live all over the world |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 54. He was the very first South African president to be elected in a fully democratic election. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 55. He was the very first South African president to be elected in a fully democratic election. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 56. Nelson was also the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress or ANC. |
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Aaron Casey 57. After assuming the presidency, one of Mandela's trademarks was his use of Batik shirts, known as "Madiba shirts", even on formal occasions. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 58. Nelson Mandela is the oldest elected President of South Africa. He was 75 years old when he was elected. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 59. One of Mandela’s major failure as South Africa’s President, was his government's ineffectiveness in stemming the AIDS crisis. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 60. He opted not to stand for a second term and was succeeded by Thabo Mbeki. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 61. His popular statement against the US; "If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don't care.
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 62. Quite unbelievable but Mandela is one of the most awarded persons in history receiving more than 250 awards. |
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Aaron casey Knoji.com 63. Nelson’s most significant award is his 1993 Nobel Peace Prize, an award shared with President F.W. de Klerk. |
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Aaron casey knoji.com 64. Nelson Mandela has received honorary degrees from more than 50 international universities worldwide and is chancellor of the University of the North. |
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Aaron casey knoji.com 65. Unique awards of Nelson include; he was the first living person to be made an honorary Canadian citizen in 2001, the last ever Lenin Peace Prize from the Soviet Union, the Atatürk Peace Award by Turkey and others. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 66. The 1985 Oscar for the song “I Just Called to Say I Love You” by Stevie Wonder was dedicated to Nelson Mandela. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 67. The 2006 music video “If Everyone Cared” by Nickelback is a summary of nelson Mandela’s life story. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 68. Long Walk to Freedom is Nelson Mandela’s autobiography which was published in 1994. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 69. The film Mandela and De Klerk told the story of Mandela’s release from prison. Mandela was played by Sidney Poitier. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 70. Goodbye Bafana, a feature film that was release in 2007, focuses on Mandela’s life. The film starred Dennis Haysbert as Mandela and chronicled Mandela’s relationship with prison guard James Gregory. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 71. The Cosby Show Cliff and Claire Huxtable’s grandchildren were named Nelson and Winnie in honor of Mandela and his ex-wife Winnie. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 72. Invictus, a film directed by Clint Eastwood, and featured Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela and Matt Damon as Pienaar. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 73. Sandton Square in Johannesburg was renamed Nelson Mandela Square in 2004. A 6-meter statue of Nelson Mandela was installed on the square in honor of Mandela. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 74. A South African species of trapdoor spider was named Stasimopus mandelai in honor of Mandela in 2004. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 75. A statue of Nelson Mandela was unveiled at Parliament Square in London in August 2007. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 76. Nelson Mandela has been married three times, has fathered six children, has twenty grandchildren, and a growing number of great-grandchildren. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 77. His first marriage was to Evelyn Ntoko Mase but the couple broke up in 1957 after 13 years. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 78. Mandela’s second marriage was to Winnie Madikizela, first black social worker of Johannesburg. They had two daughters. The union ended in a divorce in 1996. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 79. Mandela’s third marriage was to Graca Machel in 1998. He was 80 year-old when she married Graca. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 80. Nelson Mandela was diagnosed and treated for prostate cancer in 2001. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 81. Handel’s or Tchaikovsky’s music is Nelson Mandela’s favorites. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 82. Since the 1940s, no matter how late he has worked the previous evening he’s up by 4:30 AM and by 5:00 AM he has begun his exercise routine that lasts at least an hour. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 83. His regular breakfast at 6.30 AM, consist of plain porridge, with fresh fruit and fresh milk, when the day’s newspapers are read. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 84.Nelson Mandela works 12 hours a day and hated tardiness so much. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 85. His favorite foods are the traditionally prepared meat of a freshly slaughtered sheep and the delicacy Amarhewu, a fermented corn-meal. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 86. Nelson has outlive his two oldest sons, Thembi died of car crash at age 25 while he was in prison and Mandela was not allowed to attend the funeral. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 87. Makgatho, his second son, died of AIDS at age 54 in 2005. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 88. Mandela’s grandson Prince Cedza Dlamini (born 1976), educated in the United States, has followed his footsteps as an international advocate for human rights and humanitarian aid. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 89. Nelson Mandela retired from Public life in June 1999. He currently resides in his birth place in Transkei. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 90. Nelson Mandela retired from Public life in June 1999. He currently resides in his birth place in Transkei. |
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Aaron Casey knoji.com 91. During the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, Nelson Mandela made a rare public appearance during the closing ceremony and was warmly applauded. |
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Aaron Casey mentalfloss.com 92. Mandela's prison number was 46664. The number stems from the fact that he was the 466th prisoner of 1964. He has since embraced the number, making it the name of his HIV/AIDS awareness campaign and the name of a series of charity concerts benefiting said charity. |
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Aaron Casey mentalfloss.com 93. Mandela and his cousin Justice ran away from home in 1941 to avoid arranged marriages. |
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Aaron Casey mentalfloss.com 94. Mandela's inauguration as President of South Africa in 1994 was historic for at least four reasons (and probably many more). First of all, he was the first democratically-elected president of South Africa ever. He was also the first black president to be elected in South Africa, and the oldest president to be elected. Finally, his inauguration united the largest number of Heads of State since JFK's funeral in 1963. |
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Aaron Casey mentalfloss.com 95. South Africans commonly call Mandela "mkhulu" (grandfather), or Madiba, the Mandela family name for a respected elder. |
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Aaron Casey mentalfloss.com 96.One of Mandela's most famous quotes isn't really his quote. You may have heard it—it's often cited as a quote from his 1994 inaugural speech:"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure ... As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." This is actually a quote by author and spiritual activist Marianne Williamson in her book A Return to Love. Not only did Mandela not coin the quote himself, he probably never even said it. "As far as I know, he has never used the quote in any of his speeches," said Razia Saleh, an archivist at the Nelson Mandela Foundation, "and we have catalogued about 1000 thus far." |
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Aaron Casey mentalfloss.com 97. He received more than 695 awards, including the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize. |
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Aaron Casey mentalfloss.com 98. Mandela was a guy people like to honor (as if the 695 awards didn't prove it). More than 25 schools, universities and educational institutions have been named after Nelson Mandela. At least 19 scholarships and foundations bear his name. He was awarded in the vicinity of 115 honorary degrees and more than 95 sculptures, statues, or pieces of art have been made of him or dedicated to him. |
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Aaron Casey mentalfloss.com 99. Mandela was a guy people like to honor (as if the 695 awards didn't prove it). More than 25 schools, universities and educational institutions have been named after Nelson Mandela. At least 19 scholarships and foundations bear his name. He was awarded in the vicinity of 115 honorary degrees and more than 95 sculptures, statues, or pieces of art have been made of him or dedicated to him. |
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Aaron Casey boomsbeats.com 100. He studied law at the University of Witwatersrand. |
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