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Nelson Mandela University was founded through a merger of three institutions in January 2005, but its history dates back to 1882, with the foundation of the Port Elizabeth Art School. It is a comprehensive university offering professional and vocational training. The university has seven campuses – six in Gqeberha and one in George. The main ...
Recorded 4 October 1994. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela ( / mænˈdɛlə / man-DEH-lə; [1] Xhosa: [xolíɬaɬa mandɛ̂ːla]; born Rolihlahla Mandela; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, politician, and statesman who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's ...
Presented with the Alfonso Comin Foundation Peace Award in Barcelona, Spain. Freedom of the Borough of Islwyn, Wales, given to Winnie and Nelson Mandela. International Peace and Freedom Award by the Workers International Centre, Stockholm Sweden. Honorary Doctor of Literature, University of Calcutta.
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I Am Prepared to Die. " I Am Prepared to Die " was a three-hour speech given by Nelson Mandela on 20 April 1964 from the dock at the Rivonia Trial. [1] The speech is so titled because it ended with the words "it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die". It is considered one of the great speeches of the 20th century, and a key moment in the ...
As part of the government's plan for higher education, Vista University's Port Elizabeth campus was merged into UPE in 2004. In 2003, the merger proposal for Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) was announced. UPE effectively shut down after the 2004 academic year, and was merged with Port Elizabeth Technikon on 1 January 2005.
The presidency of Nelson Mandela began on 10 May 1994, when Nelson Mandela, an anti- apartheid activist, leader of uMkhonto we Sizwe, lawyer, and former political prisoner, was inaugurated as President of South Africa, and ended on 14 June 1999. He was the first non-White head of state in the history of South Africa, taking office at the age of 75.
Nelson Mandela University, university in Port Elizabeth, South Africa (formerly Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University) Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital, a teaching hospital in Mthatha, South Africa; Nelson Mandela High School, Sierra Leone, in Waterloo, Sierra Leone; Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology, university in ...