NELSON MANDELA   TIMELINE 



- 1918 Born at Qunu, near Umtata
- 1944 Mandela helped found the ANC Youth League
- 1949 He was instrumental
- 1952 He opened the first Black Law firm in South Africa
 -1952 Defiance Campaign
- 1956 He was charged with treason
- 1960 Mandela advocate armed struggle through the Umkhonto
- 1962 He in Robben Island prison
- 1990 He release from the prison
- 1993 He was awarded the Nobel Prize jointly with F.W . De Klerk
- 1994-1999 Mandela was the first democratically elected state president