NELSON MANDELA

INTRODUCTION
Mandela received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. Do you want to know more about his life?. Copy the following questions in your notebook and answer each of them by visiting the sites listed below.

QUESTIONS
1.When was Nelson Mandela born?
2.Where was he born?
3. Who was his father?
4. Did he work as a lawyer?
5. What´s the meaning of ANC?
6. Was he working to defend black South Africans?
7. Haw many years was he in prison ?
8. When was he elected president of South Africa?
9. What´s the meaning of Apartheid?
10 .When did he sign the country's new constitution? What did it include?
11. Complete this sentence that was told by Mandela: "If you want to make .......... with your enemy, you have to work with your ................Then he becomes your .................."

12. Complete his biography:
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born in........................., South Africa on July 18, ........................ His father was ...................... of the Tembu Tribe.

Mandela himself was educated at University College of Fort Hare and the University of Witwatersrand and qualified in .................... in 1942. He joined the African ................... Congress in 1944 and was engaged in resistance against the ruling National Party's ................. policies after 1948.

From 1964 to 1982, he was in .......................................During his................ years in prison, Nelson Mandela's reputation grew steadily. 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.

He was elected the first black President of South Africa in ......................... He signed the new South Africa Constitution. Although he retired from political life in 1999, Mandela continues to lend his voice towards issues that affect his country such as the AIDS epidemic, poverty and human rights. For all these reasons, Mandela, received the Nobel Peace Prize ...............................


LINKS
Biography
Mandela´s sentence

FINAL TASK
Copy the complete Mandela´s sentence, then write his biography. You must illustrate it with a photo.