Mandela Vs. Ghandi

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On July 18th, 1918 Rolilahla Mandela was born in to a royal family. The family in which he was born was of the Thembu tribe resided in the Mvezo village in South African. He was born to Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa who served as chief and Nosekeni Fanny whom was the third of the four wife’s that Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa had. Nelson was one of the four boys and also one of the 13 children his father had. After his father died when he was nine years old, he was adopted by a high ranking regent of the Thembu tribe named Jongintaba Dalindyebo. Jongintaba Dalindyebo raised Nelson up to play a role within the tribal leadership. Nelson was the first of his 13 brothers and sisters to get a formal education. Nelson finished his schooling at one of the local missionary schools, where he was actually given the Nelson by his teacher. Nelson continued his schooling at Clarkebury Boarding Institute and Healdtown which was a Methodist secondary school. At this school Nelson would excel his studies as well as boxing and track. In the year of 1939, Nelson went to the only western taught higher learning school available for South Africans of color called, The University of Fort Hare. In the year of 1940 Nelson and a few other students including his friend and business partner Oliver Tambo, were ordered to be sent home in which they would participate in boycotting against the universities policies. When Nelson found out about the arranged marriage his adopted father had planned for him, he fled to Johannesburg. Nelson would work as a night watchmen and a law clerk, all while getting his bachelor’s degree. While Nelson became an activist in the movement of racial discrimination he would study law at the University Of Witwatersrand. In the year of 1944 wo...

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... or the people who admired him. There were protest and boycotts not only in favor of the anti-apartheid movement but, also in favor of the release of Nelson Mandela. These protest and boycotts continued until their calls were answered, Not only did the South African people get their right but, Nelson Mandela was released from prison by the new president F.D. Klerk. Very soon after his release he was the leader of the ANC and potential president. Now that blacks could vote, most if not all voted for Mandela and he was elected as the first black president in South Africa in May of 1994.

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