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Nelson Mandela was born in 1918 in South Africa and dreamed of freedom for his people from a young age. He attended primary school and went on to secondary school where he matriculated. Mandela began studying for his bachelor's degree but was expelled for joining a student protest. He then ran away to Johannesburg to avoid an arranged marriage and started working and studying law.

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Mvezo

Nelson Mandela was born in 1918 in South Africa and dreamed of freedom for his people from a young age. He attended primary school and went on to secondary school where he matriculated. Mandela began studying for his bachelor's degree but was expelled for joining a student protest. He then ran away to Johannesburg to avoid an arranged marriage and started working and studying law.

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Rolihlahla Mandela was born into the Madiba clan in the village of 

Mvezo,
in the Eastern Cape, on 18 July 1918. His mother was Nonqaphi Nosekeni
and his father was Nkosi Mphakanyiswa Gadla Mandela, principal
counsellor to the Acting King of the Thembu people, Jongintaba
Dalindyebo. In 1930, when he was 12 years old, his father died and the
young Rolihlahla became a ward of Jongintaba at the Great Place in
Mqhekezweni1.

Hearing the elders’ stories of his ancestors’ valour during the wars of
resistance, he dreamed also of making his own contribution to the
freedom struggle of his people.
He attended primary school in Qunu where his teacher, Miss Mdingane,
gave him the name Nelson, in accordance with the custom of giving all
schoolchildren “Christian” names.

He completed his Junior Certificate at Clarkebury Boarding Institute and


went on to Healdtown, a Wesleyan secondary school of some repute,
where he matriculated.

Mandela began his studies for a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University
College of Fort Hare but did not complete the degree there as he was
expelled for joining in a student protest.

On his return to the Great Place at Mqhekezweni the King was furious and
said if he didn’t return to Fort Hare he would arrange wives for him and
his cousin Justice. They ran away to Johannesburg instead, arriving there
in 1941. There he worked as a mine security officer and after meeting
Walter Sisulu, an estate agent, he was introduced to Lazer Sidelsky. He
then did his articles through a firm of attorneys – Witkin, Eidelman and
Sidelsky.

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