12.13.2013

Nelson Mandela

Watch the video and answer the following questions. Check your answers in 'comments'.

    1.      When was he born?
    2.       What does ANC stand for?
    3.       When did he become head of the ANC’s Youth Wing?
    4.       What did his law firm do in Johannesburg?
    5.       What happened in 1960?
    6.       Why was he arrested and put on trial in 1962?
    7.       How did he defend his actions?
    8.       What was he sentenced to two years later?
    9.       Why was he freed?

  10.   When was he elected the first black president? How old was he?
 11.   How long was he president? 
  12.   Why did Mandela and Mr de Klerk get the Peace Nobel Prize?
  13.   Why was he critized when he was president?
  14.   When did he retire from public life?
  15.   What did he turn South Africa into?


1 comment:

eoilumi1 said...

1. July 18th, 1918
2. The African National Congress
3. In the 1940s
4. They gave free or low cost legal advice to blacks.
5. The government banned the ANC.
6. He was arrested for his actions against the government.
7. He defended his actions as part of the struggle of the African people for a free society.
8. Life imprison.
9. Because the white government legalized all political parties and discharged most political prisoners.
10. In 1994. He was 75.
11. For five years.
12. For their contribution to the peace process in South Africa.
13. They accused him of not confronting South Africa’s Aids epidemic.
14. In 1995 (he was 85).
15. A country of greater peace and understanding.