Nelson was born in Mvezo in South Africa, with a family of 9 of brother and sisters. His family did not even see him in the house sometimes. When he was at the age of 6, one of his teacher gave him the name “Nelson” because all children who goes to school must have a “Christian” names, which his father was the principle of his school.
By the age of 12, his father died from Respiratory tract infection. Which is a infection in the nose, throat, and the the airways of the human body, it common thought and there is a way to treat it and it’s drinking some water and some others as well. But they did not have the medication of it in South Africa so he passed away.
After his death, Mandela became the foster kid even though his father was somewhat
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Over time, Mandela was rising through the ranks of African National Congress Youth League (or ANCYL for short), which then the African National Congress adopted more radical mass based policies. By 1944, the same time that he is doing this, he married a woman named Evelyn Mase who was a nurse, and when they were married they had 4 children. Their names was Madiba Thembekile ( or Thembi) and Makgatho which are sons, and the daughters was both named Makaziwe. Except the first daughter passed away when she was a infant. But in 1958, Nelson Mandela and Evelyn Mase was divorced because Nelson was cheating with another …show more content…
But on June 11, 1964, him and 11 other associates were sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island. But through 27 years of life imprisonment, he was given three conditional offers for release, but he refuse to accept the offers that they gave him (which is mostly the government) But on August 12, 1988, he was soon diagnosed with tuberculosis (which is an infectious bacterial disease with is a growth of nodules, a small swelling of the cell in the body, in the tissue sometimes in the lungs). The past three months he would have to go to two hospitals, which he was transferred to Victor Verster Prison near Paarl, which he spent h14 months