Selasa, 18 Maret 2014

Some Very Interesting Facts About Nelson Mandela

By Alex D White


Mandela is one of the most famous African presidents who is known to have taken the shortest term in the presidential seat. He is also known to be one of those many Africa presidents who spent most of their life in detention. Below are some great and interesting facts you may need to know about Nelson Mandela.

During his lifetime, Mandela has been awarded with hundreds of honors and awards. Mandela was also an honorary member of Manchester United, Honorary citizen of Canada and honorary member of British Labour Party. Mandela is also known to have had a variety of places named after him among them being a prehistoric woodpecker (the Aistralopicus nelsonmandelai), a nuclear particle (the Mandela particle) and an orchid (Paravanda Nelson Mandela).

Mandela was kicked out of school when he was studying in Fort Hare University when he tried to participate in a protest. Nevertheless, few years later Mandela joined Unisa University where he completed his degree. Mandela as well took his law degree in Wits University later in his life.

When serving his imprisonment term, Mandela is known to have been kept in a 2M by 2.5M sized chamber. This cubicle contained nothing more than a bucket for sanitation and bedroll on the ground. In his jail time, Mandela was banished to hard tasks for example working on a lime quarry. The court only allowed him to be receiving one later and visitors after six months.

Despite the fact that the apartheid government suggested to discharge Mandela for around six occasions when serving his jail term, he at all times opposed their offer. He always declined their offers by mentioning that even though he loved his freedom he favored their freedom more. This was meant to mean that there was no need for him to be freed when ANC was still banned since it stood for his Nation.

United Nations exclusively declared the birthday of Mandela as a celebration day. After the UN declared the 18th of July the day Mandela was born an international celebration day, it has always been celebrated as a great international day. It is only the name of Mandela that was declared an international celebration day by the UN.

Other amazing facts about Mandela are when he used his wits to avoid the people who were searching for him due to his efforts to change South Africa. For instance, Mandela played the trick of disguising himself as night watchman at a mine, a garden and chef boy and a chauffeur. Mandela as well faked his name to David Motsamayi while he was trying to leave South Africa to other parts of Africa and England.

During his life, Mandela has had funny and quite interesting facts some which have been mentioned above. Each of these facts explains the life of Mandela during and after he became the first president of South Africa. Besides these facts, Mandela has gained lots of popularity due to his hard work and efforts to change South Africa from what it was to a new state where apartheid is no more.




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