Introduction Nelson Mandela’s real name was Rolihlahla . Nelson Mandela was born on July 18, 1918 in Mvezo, South Africa. He Died on December 5, 2013 in Houghton Estate, Johannesburg, South Africa. Nelson Mandela became famous for his long fight against bad government and racial prejudice. He became a hero to people all over the world. Mandela had a big family. He had two daughters and two sons with his first wife, Evelyn Mase, and two daughters with his second wife, Nomzamo Winnie Madikizela. He had four stepchildren from his marriage to Graca Machel. Only three of his children are still alive, his daughters Makaziwe, Zenani and Zindzi. Nelson Mandela was the first black President of South Africa. He spent 27 years in prison for trying to overthrow the pro-apartheid government. After he left prison, he worked to achieve human rights and a better future for everyone in South Africa. As South Africa's …show more content…
From other subjects he studied history which was a wholly Eurocentric (school courses) focused on British history. However, his history teacher, Weaver and, adds his own oral history to the stories about the previous century's edge of something/unexplored area wars between the Xhosa and the British colonists. Mandela was the first member of his family to attend high school and when he signed up at Healdtown in 1938 he formed part of a very small number of Black pupils who had reached a high school education in the country. Nelson Mandela was famous because when Nelson Mandela was a young man,white and black people in South Africa lived separate lives under a system called racial separation.White people, who were a small part of the group, were in charge of the country. It was illegal for black people to use the same schools, hospitals, and even beaches as white people. Conditions in whites-only schools and hospitals were much