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Husband and lawyer:

Mandela married Evelyn Mase, and they had some children. He 

had problems with his wife, because she didn't like politics, and he 

can't be much time at home. 

In 1950 the government took some black's territories. In 1951 

Mandela wanted to change some laws,but the government didn't 

listen to him. He made more protests with no violence.

The day of protest:

After the protest, the government was angry, and the police 

arrested him and many other protesters, for two days. He opened 

a new law office for blacks. The government was angry, so they 

banned him for meetings with the ANC people. 

Arrests:

The police went to Mandela's   house and   searched for 

documents. They arrested him in front   of his family. That day the 

police arrested 144 more people. All the people over the country 

protested, and the world too. His wife left him, when he was in 

prision.

Protest the Pass Laws!:

In 1960, 30.000 people protested with the PAC. The 

police killed 2 men, and hurt 400 women and children.  

Chief Luthuli started a fire in the street and, burned his 

passbook. Then thousands of blacks did the same. The 

government made a new law: nobody could protest. 

Mandela and fourty more protesters were arested for 36 

hours. He got out for his trial.

Ban the ANC! :

On 1960 the government banned the ANC and the PAC. 

(organizations for help the black people)

Free them! :

After five years the treason trial ended. Mandela left the 

prision. A free man!

The ANC was very dangerous now, so Madela started a new life. The 

newspapers called him the "Black pimpernel". He drove across the 

country, and talked to many people about the ANC work.

They had to use violence, so Mandela started a new organization, the MK.

  The ANC wanted Mandela for importanat meetings. Winnie, his wife, was 

afraid, but she understood. He had more meetings in many places. He 

went to London, and he felt so happy

Freedomends in Rivonia:

In 1962 the police caught Mandela in Rivonia. The people protested and 

shouted "Free Mandela". His trial started and was found guilty.   He got 5 

years in prision.

Boy or man?:

In prision the autorities gave short trousers to black people. He protested, 

so they gave him long trousers.

In 1963 Mandela went to Robben Island. He had to work very hard. Then 

the police found MK´s papers, with plans for violence.

The Rivonia trial:

The Rivonia trial started in October of 1963. In London the people 

protested. On June of 1964, the trial ended, with life in prision for Nelson 

Mandela and many other men.

Robben Island:

The prision rooms were small, wet and cold. The work was very hard 

and boring. The prisioners could write only one letter to their families 

every six months, and only 500 words in each letter. But the system of 

shipment was very bad.

Prision authorities wanted the prisioners to felt weak, so the stronger men 

had to help   the weaker men.

Visitors:

In the first months, there were some visitors. A photographer and a 

writer from a newspaper arrived one day. Then, a lawyer arrived from 

Britain and the United States. The world was interested   in the Rivonia trial 

prisioners.

Winnie visited him, five warders were watching them. They had to speak 

English or Afrikaans.

They had thirty minutes to talk, and Mandela did not see her again for two 

years.

The Iternational Red Cross wanted to help them.

Prision life:

Some prisioners wanted to study. Mandela used books from the London 

University. The prisioners couldn´t have newspapers, but the warders 

carried them sandwiches inside newpapers. But one day, a warder saw 

MAndela, and he was 3 days without eating, and he dindn´t see any 

prisioners.

Family:

In the spring of 1968, his mother visited him, later, she died. In 1969, 

his son, Thembi, died in a car accident.

Changes to prision life:

In 1977 the authhorities said: "Political prisioners donn´t have to 

work". So Mandela started a garden. He gave the vegetables to the 

prision's cook. He enjoyed his garden. He also read lot of books, and 

played tennis. In 1980 the prisioners could read newspapers. He read: 

"Free Mandela!"

In 1982, the authorities moved Mandela, and three other men to 

another prision.

PollsmoorPrision:

The life in Pollsmoor was better. For the first time in twenty-one 

years Mandela took Winnie in his arms. In 1985 the president Botha 

said "mandela can be free , but the ANC had to stop using 

violence". Mandela said that the ANC couldn't stop to use violence 

because the government used it..

Victor Verster:

On 1988 they moved Mandela to Victor Verster. The president 

Botha left the government in 1989. F. W. Klerk was the new 

president. Klerk freed some Mandela's friends.

The long walk to freedom:

The government wanted to send Mandela to Jhohannesburg and 

free him   there. On 11 February 1990 Mandela walked out of Victor 

Vrster after more than 10.000 days in prision.

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