What was Nelson Mandela's early life like?

Answer 1

In a nutshell, it was a life of privilege (he comes from the Thembu royal family and was expected to take his father's seat on the king's Privy Council, although his lineage made him ineligible to become king) and tragedy (his father died of tuberculosis when Mandela was nine; after his father's death, the Regent of Thembu became his guardian).

Mandela's father had four wives and thirteen children (four boys and nine girls). Nelson is not Mandela's real name; he was born Rolihlahla. Nelson was the name given to him by a white schoolteacher who struggled with pronounciation of his real name. He was the first member of his family to attend school.

His early life officially ended with a traditional initiation ceremony at age sixteen, after which he left to study at Clarkebury Boarding Institute.

Answer 2

He was a virgin til he was 16.
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born in a village near Umtata in the Transkei on the 18 July 1918. His father was the principal councillor to the Acting Paramount Chief of Thembuland. After his father s death, the young Rolihlahla became the Paramount Chief s ward to be groomed to assume high office. However, influenced by the cases that came before the Chief s court, he determined to become a lawyer. Hearing the elders stories of his ancestors valour during the wars of resistance in defence of their fatherland, he dreamed also of making his own contribution to the freedom struggle of his people.

After receiving a primary education at a local mission school, Nelson Mandela was sent to Healdtown, a Wesleyan secondary school of some repute where he matriculated. He then enrolled at the University College of Fort Hare for the Bachelor of Arts Degree where he was elected onto the Student's Representative Council. He was suspended from college for joining in a protest boycott. He went to Johannesburg where he completed his BA by correspondence, took articles of clerkship and commenced study for his LLB. He entered politics in earnest while studying in Johannesburg by joining the African National Congress in 1942.

At the height of the Second World War a small group of young Africans, members of the African National Congress, banded together under the leadership of Anton Lembede. Among them were William Nkomo, Walter Sisulu, Oliver R. Tambo, Ashby P. Mda and Nelson Mandela. Starting out with 60 members, all of whom were residing around the Witwatersrand, these young people set themselves the formidable task of transforming the ANC into a mass movement, deriving its strength and motivation from the unlettered millions of working people in the towns and countryside, the peasants in the rural areas and the professionals.

Their chief contention was that the political tactics of the old guard' leadership of the ANC, reared in the tradition of constitutionalism and polite petitioning of the government of the day, were proving inadequate to the tasks of national emancipation. In opposition to the old guard', Lembede and his colleagues espoused a radical African Nationalism grounded in the principle of national self-determination. In September 1944 they came together to found the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL).

Still no help from Gemseeker, sorry.
I was not sure who he even really was, though I knew the name.
DJH

Answer 3

in his early existence he turned right into a terrorist and killed many human beings such as his own,yet that stopped at the same time as he became stuck and put in penal complicated,he became no longer and is not any longer the hero that he's made out to be,

Answer 4

oppressed