Ntural Beuaty: 2013

Things you must know about Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela passed away at the age of 95. Most of us know him as an anti-Apartheid worker. Here are a few things you might not have known.
His parents didn’t name him Nelson. This name was randomly given to him by a teacher at school.
He grew up in a tribal village and was the first in his family to attend college.
He studied to be a lawyer and ended up as a high ranking member of the African National Congress, a group resisting apartheid.
Nelson Mandela received guerrilla training in Morocco and Ethiopia.
He married three times, the last time when he was 80 years old.
He was in prison for 27 years because of anti government activity.
He loved boxing.
After being released from prison he became the first president of post apartheid South Africa.
He was friends with Gaddafi until his death.
He was also a long time admirer of Fidel Castro who he met after his release from prison.
At some point he made time for a cameo in the 1992 film Malcolm.
In 1993, along with the last apartheid president of South Africa, F. W. de Klerrk, he accepted the Nobel peace prize in Norway.
He possibly received more high profile awards than anybody in history with at least 695.
He received 50 honorary degrees, the first person to be name an honorary citizen of Canada and the last person to receive the Lenin Peace Prize form the Soviet Union.
Nelson Mandela International Day is celebrated on 18^th of July (his birthday) since 2009.
He also had a nuclear particle, a prehistoric woodpecker and an orchid name after him.