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Monday, November 21, 2011

Nelson Mandela project

Check out some of these links for your research for the Nelson Mandela project.

http://www.pitara.com/magazine/people/online.asp?story=15
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12305154


Here's a video for you to find out some more too:



Please let us know if you have any links to other good websites about Nelson Mandela. Copy and paste the web address into a comment and tell us what you learned from that site.
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3 comments:

  1. Amy GNovember 22, 2011 at 8:08 AM

    http://kidsfront.com/biography/nelson_mandela_biography.html
    From this website I have learned......
    Nelson Mandela was born in Transkei, South Africa. He was educated in the university collage Fort Hare and the university of Witwatersrand he qualified in law in 1942.From 1964 to 1982, he was incarcerated at Robben Island Prison, off Cape Town he was then put at Pollsmoor Prison, nearby on the mainland.He was released on February 11, 1990. He tried to achieve the goals he and others had set out 40 years earlier.

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  2. Louise A .November 22, 2011 at 10:09 AM

    http://www.nelsonmandela.org/index.php

    This website tells you about Nelson in the past and present.

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  3. Ciaran MNovember 22, 2011 at 12:52 PM

    Here is what I learned from this site
    http://factoidz.com/70-interesting-facts-about-nelson-mandela/
    His Father died in 1925 when Mandela was 9.
    The name of the teacher that gave him the name Nelson is Miss Mdingane.
    Nelson's Father had 4 wives and fathered 13 children 4 boys 9 girls.
    He done his Junoir Certificate in 2 years instead of 3.
    He was born in Mveso Umtata with is the capital of Transkei.

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