Cesion de derechos en casa

Chapter 1

Nelson Mandela (1918 – 2013)

He was born to the Mandela Family in a small village of Qunu, in the Transkei province of South Africa.  When he was a child he was name Rolihlahla, which means “troublemaker”. During his childhood he played games in the fields around Qunu with other children of the village.

When he was seven, Rolihlahla went to school, the only one of his brothers and sisters to do so. Miss Mdingane , gave him the English name of Nelson, the name which later became world-famous.

At the age of 9 years, his father died and his mother took him to live with his uncle. They reached the village of Mqhekezweni. Chief Joingintaba lived in a large home with gardens of apple, trees, vegetables and flowers. This was the great place of Thembu, where Nelson lived with his uncle, aunt and cousins. From his uncle, Nelson learned about the history of the African people and the arrival of white people. The Thembu people are part of the Xhosa are farming people who moved down from central Africa.

The first white people arrived from Europe on the most southern coast of Africa in 1652. The first white people lived in South Africa: those from Britain who spoke English, and those from the Netherlands who became known as Afrikaners and spoke Afrikaans.

The discovery of diamonds in the British city of kimberley in 1867, Africans were forced to dig in the diamond and gold mines, but the money from the gold and diamonds went to the white owners. About fifty men had to live in one room.

In 1936, while nelson was at school, the white parliament in Cape Town removed the right to vote from the few Africans who had it.

In 1939, Chief Jongintaba sent Nelson to the University College of Fort Hare, about  100 kilometers away, near the small town of Alice. There were 150 african students and Nelson made friends with boys from other parts of South Africa.

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