Great Interesting Facts About Nelson Mandela

By Alex D White


Mandela is among the most well known African presidents who took the shortest term of office as a president. He is known to be among the many Africa presidents who spent much of their life in detention. Right here are great and interesting facts people should know about Nelson Mandela.

During his lifetime, Mandela has been awarded with hundreds of honors and awards. Mandela was also an honorary member of Manchester United, Honorary citizen of Canada and honorary member of British Labour Party. Mandela is also known to have had a variety of places named after him among them being a prehistoric woodpecker (the Aistralopicus nelsonmandelai), a nuclear particle (the Mandela particle) and an orchid (Paravanda Nelson Mandela).

When studying in the University of Fort Hare, Mandela was kicked out of school after some rumors that he was in the company of students who tried to lead a protest. However, Mandela completed his degree in Unisa College couple of years later. Also, he became a member of the Wits College where he got is law degree.

Mandela is known to have been housed in a cell size of 2M by 2.5M when he was in prison. The room is known to contain only a bedroll on the floor and a bucket for sanitation. During his term in prison, he was consigned to very difficult jobs in the lime quarries. Mandela was also only allowed to receive letters and visitors after every six months.

Even though the apartheid government proposed to release Mandela for about six times while he was still serving his term he always resisted their offer. He always rejected their offers by mentioning that he favored his freedom more but also cared more for their freedom. He always accompanied this by saying that, he did not see any need of them releasing him while the ANC was still banned.

United Nations exclusively declared the birthday of Mandela as a celebration day. After the UN declared the 18th of July the day Mandela was born an international celebration day, it has always been celebrated as a great international day. It is only the name of Mandela that was declared an international celebration day by the UN.

When he was being searched for his attempt to change South Africa, his tricks were as well known to be very amazing facts. Mandela is known to have pretended to be a chef boy, garden boy, chauffeur and watchman. He also faked his name to David Motsamayi when he wanted to run off to England and other Africa countries.

Through the life of Mandela he has had various quite interesting facts. Above are some of the main facts known about Mandela most of which revolve around his life during and before he was a president in South Africa. To add to all these interesting facts about Mandela, he is known to have made lots of efforts to ensure he changed South Africa from what it was during that time to a better state where its residents could live peacefully and with all their rights protected by the constitution.




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