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Tuesday 11 August 2015

Achievements for Nelson Mandela


  • finished his degree and qualified as a lawyer 
  • Mandela and Tambo opened the first Black law in South Africa
  • helped found the ANC Youth League
  • reveals his autobiography when he was in prison 
  • helped to keep other's men spirits high when he release
  • elected  as president 
  • has continue to be an international figure of great stature
  • awarded the Nobel peace prize

Turning points For Nelson Mandela

  • becoming chief of his local tribe when his dad died 
  • became increasingly aware of south African society
  • became involved in politics
  • was expelled from fort hare for organizing a student strike
  • was instrumental in pushing the ANC into more direct action
  • become increasingly repressive making it more difficult for the ANC for operate
  • had to resign from ANC and worked there
  • noted in his autobiography the judiciary were one of the least repressive parts of the South Africa state
  • arrested and sentenced in Robbin island prison
  • increasingly looked to negotiation 
  • presided over the transition from minority rule and apartheid

Tuesday 4 August 2015

Roberta Sykes timeline by Amani

1943    born in Townsville
1957    left school and worked
1960    was packed-raped by four white man at age 17
mid-1960     moved to Sydney
1967    became an activist in the lead-up to the landmark
1970    began writing
1971    got married
1972    was one of the founders of the Aboriginal tent embassy
1975    was an adviser on Aboriginal health and education to 1980
1979    was published her first book on poetry
1980    graduated with a doctorate in education and was a freelance writer
1981    was ghosted the award-winning autobiography and went-off to Harvard with her daughter
1994    awarded the Australian human medal
2002    suffered a stoke at her unit in Redfern
2010    died at the Royal Prince Alfred hospital in Sydney

Nelson Mandela biography timeline by Amani

1918   born in Qunu
1944   helped found the ANC Youth league
1952   opened the first Black law in South Africa
1960   changed the political climate
1962    had been arrested and sentenced in the Robben Island prison
1990    release from prison
1993    was awarded  Nobel Peace  Prize
1994    was elected as president
1999    finished his president
2013    died at the age 95

Fred Hollows biography timeline by Amani

1929     born in New Zealand
1960     got a job in Australia
1965     was head of the eye department at a Sydney hospital
1970     helped Government to attack eye disease in Aboriginal Australians
1980     traveled over the world to help set up eye health programs in developing countries
1989     diagnosed with cancer
1993     died at home