SOUTH AFRICA

 

What do you know about South Africa?

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Time line :
Read the chronology of key events:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14094918

  
Nelson Mandela spent most of his life fighting apartheid in South Africa. Apartheid was a system of laws created by the South African government to discriminate against its black citizen. 
Mandela was arrested for protesting the laws and was in prison for 27 years.
 He was released from prison in 1990. He  became president of South Africa in 1994.
In 1993 he received the Nobel Peace Prize.

Take this quiz to learn more about the life and work of Nelson Mandela.
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Quick Facts:

• NAME: Nelson Mandela
• OCCUPATION: Civil Rights Activist, World Leader, Journalist
• BIRTH DATE: July 18, 1918 (Age: 94)
• EDUCATION: Clarkebury Boarding Institute, Wesleyan College, University College of Fort Hare, University of London, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
• PLACE OF BIRTH: Transkei, South Africa
• Full Name: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
• AKA: Nelson Mandela
• AKA: Rolihlahla
• AKA: Madiba(clan name)
  
• Originally: Rolihlahla Mandela
• ZODIAC SIGN: Cancer

Nelson Mandela International Day (or Mandela Day) is an annual international day in honour of Nelson Mandela, celebrated each 18 July (on Mandela's birthday).The day was officially declared by the United Nations in November 2009, with the first UN Mandela Day held on 18 July 2010. However, other groups began celebrating Mandela Day on 18 July 2009.