Nelson mandela english project by shivam verma class 10 b(2020-21)

PPT EXPLAINING ABOUT NELSON MANDELA

1. NELSON MANDELA Be passionate. “Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.”- n elson Mandela PPT BY – SHIVAM VERMA CLASS – XB ROLL NO. – 26 SCHOOL- BAL BHARATI PUBLIC SCHOOL , MANESAR

2. NELSON MANDELA Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born in a village near Umtata in the Transkei on the 18 July 1918. At the height of the Second World War a small group of young Africans, members of the African National Congress, banded together under the leadership of Anton Lembede. Among them was Nelson Mandela. It started out with 60 members.

3. Qualifications of nelson mandela He attended South African Native College (later the University of Fort Hare) and studied law at the University of the Witwatersrand; he later passed the qualification exam to become a lawyer. In 1944 he joined the African National Congress (ANC), a black-liberation group, and became a leader of its Youth League. That same year he met and married Evelyn Ntoko Mase. Mandela subsequently held other ANC leadership positions, through which he helped revitalize the organization and oppose the apartheid policies of the ruling National Party.

4. NELSON MANDELA After the banning of the ANC in 1960, Nelson Mandela argued for the setting up of a military wing within the ANC. In 1963, when many fellow leaders of the ANC and the Umkhonto we Sizwe were arrested, Mandela was brought to stand trial with them for plotting to overthrow the government by violence. His statement from the dock received considerable international publicity. On June 12, 1964, eight of the accused, including Mandela, were sentenced to life imprisonment. He was widely accepted as the most significant black leader in South Africa and became a potent symbol of resistance as the anti-apartheid movement gathered strength. He consistently refused to compromise his political position to obtain his freedom.

5. Nelson mandela Nelson Mandela was released on February 11, 1990 In 1991, at the first national conference of the ANC held inside South Africa after the organization had been banned in 1960 Mandela was elected President of the ANC while his lifelong friend and colleague, Oliver Tambo, became the organization's National Chairperson. He won the Nobel peace prize in 1993. “For their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa

6. Some quotes by Nelson mandela “A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.” “For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear .”

7. AWARDS ACHIEVED BY NELSON MANDELA Nobel Peace Prize (1993) Philadelphia Li Olympic Gold Order (1994)berty Medal presented by Bill Clinton (1993) Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought (1988) Presidential Medal of Freedom (2002)  Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize (1991) Anne Frank Medal (1994) The Hunger Project’s 8th annual Africa Prize for Leadership for the Sustainable End of Hunger (1994). FUN FACT REGARDING THE AWARDS OF NELSON MANDELA :- THERE ARE ABOUT 284 AWARDS THAT MR. NELSON MANDELA HAS WON IN HIS LIFE

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