Picture Gallery
Nelson Mandela in his boxing days.
© Mayibuye Centre
Mandela and his law class at the University of the Witwatersrand, 1944
©Picture NET Africa
The Sisulu wedding, 1944. On the left, Nelson Mandela. The pretty bridesmaid next to him is Evelyn Mase, his future wife.
© Sisulu Family collection
Portrait of Nelson Mandela in the 1950's.
© Fort Hare University collection
Nelson Mandela with Ruth First at the ANC Congress, Batho location, Bloemfontein. Mid-December, 1951.
© photograph by Jurgen Schadeberg
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Mandela in his chambers at Chancellor House,situated opposite the Magistrate's Court, 1952.
©photograph by Jurgen Schadeberg
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Walter Sisulu (left), Nelson Mandela (middle) and Harrison Motlana (right) at the defiance trials of 1952.
©photograph by Jurgen Schadeberg
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Nelson Mandela outside the Bantu Education Building after the education boycott of April 1st 1955,which resulted in a total number of 6,948 pupils being banned and 116 teachers being served with a month's notice to leave school.
©Baileys African History Archives)
Mandela addresses women before the August 9 Women's March, 1956.
©Bailey's African History Archives
Boxing with champion Jerry Moloi, the star boxer of the D.O.C.C. club.This shot by young Drum photographer BobGosani was taken, not at the D.O.C.C, but on the rooftop of the South African Associated Newspapers office.
©Bailey's African History Archives.
Nelson Mandela with Peter Nthite, another Youth League leader in the African National Congress.
During lunch break at the Treason Trial in Pretoria behind the Old Synagogue, Pretoria.
©Baileys African History Archives
Mandela with fellow accused Ruth First and Congress of Democrats
supporter Rose Schlachte during the Treason Trial, which began in 1957.
©Bailey's African History Archives
Mandela with Moses Kotane outside the Old Synagogue, Pretoria, on the day when the last of the accused were finally acquitted.
©Bailey's African History Archives
Nelson Mandela, Aziz Pahad and Winnie Mandela outside the Old Synagogue, Pretoria. October 13, 1958
©Bailey's African History Archives
Mandela at the All-In Africa Conference at Plessislaer Hall in Pietermaritzburg, 1961.
©Bailey's African History Archives
Mandela addressing the All-In Africa Conference at Plessislaer Hall in Pietermaritzburg, 1961.
©Bailey's African History Archives
Mandela leaving the All-In Africa Conference at Plessislaer Hall in Pietermaritzburg, 1961.
©Bailey's African History Archives
Nelson Mandela in prison in Pretoria in 1964, before being transferred to Robben Island
©picture from sgiquarterly.org listed as part of Hultun Archives
Winnie Mandela with her children outside the Palace of Justice during the Rivonia Trial of 1963.
©Bailey's African History Archives
Man passing newspaper headline poster which reads: "Mandela, Life or Death Trial". Diagonal Street, Johannesburg. October 6, 1963.
©(David Goldblatt / South Photographs)
Graphic circulated within the resistance movement during Mandela's imprisonment
Winnie Mandela with Joyce Sikhakhane, Zinzi and Mrs Iris Xaba, Winnie's sister after the acquittal
of 19 of the 20 people tried under the Terrorist Act, 1970. Benjamin Sello Ramotse's plea was rejected.
©Bailey's African History Archives
Miss Winnie Mandela in a photograph taken at her house in Orlando after the acquittal of 19 of the 20 people tried under the Terrorist Act. 1970. Benjamin Sello Ramotse's plea was rejected.
©Bailey's African History Archives
Protest against PW Botha's visit, London, England, 1984.
©Paul Weinberg / South Photographs
Image of Mandela used in a 1985 Grassroots calendar.
Winnie Mandela breaks her government bans and returns to her home in Soweto. April 1986, Soweto
©Louise Gubb.
Anti-Apartheid rally in London, 1986.
©Paul Weinberg / South Photographs
Anti-Apartheid Concert, London, June 1986.
©Paul Weinberg / South Photographs
A banner demanding the release of Nelson Mandela, at the 5th National Union of Mineworkers Congress in February 1987.
©Paul Weinberg / South Photographs
Graphic published for the event of Nelson Mandela's 70th birthday on the 18th of July 1988
Cover of Learn and Teach magazine designed by Stephen Rothenburg, published for Mandela's 70th birthday in prison in 1988.
Welcoming other leaders on their release from Robben Island, this appeared in a South African newspaper
with Mandela's face blacked out - demanding his release
A youth flies an ANC flag from a statue of Jan Smuts during a march on Parliament. Cape Town, 2 February 1990.
©Paul Grendon / South Photographs
Nelson and Winnie Mandela greet the crowds and cameras moments after his release, 11 February 1990.
©Graeme Williams / South Photographs
Nelson Mandela the day after his release from prison, 12 February, 1990.
©Graeme Williams / South Photographs
Two days after Mandela was released crowds gathered outside No. 8115 Ngakane Road, Orlando West, to greet the world's most famous prisoner come home at last.
©Graeme Williams / South Photographs
Nelson Mandela, Joe Slovo, Dimpho and Chris Hani at the launch of the SACP in Soweto, July 1990.
©Graeme Williams / South Photographs
Nelson Mandela calls for peace in the township of Thokoza during fighting between Inkatha supporting Zulu hostel dwellers and ANC supporting township residents, August 1990.
©Graeme Williams / South Photographs
1991 ANC conference, Durban
©South African History Online: Omar Badsha
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1991 ANC conference, Durban
©South African History Online: Omar Badsha
1991 ANC conference, Durban
©South African History Online: Omar Badsha
1991 ANC conference, Durban
©South African History Online: Omar Badsha
1991 ANC conference, Durban
©South African History Online: Omar Badsha
1991 ANC conference, Durban
©South African History Online: Omar Badsha
1991 ANC conference, Durban
©South African History Online: Omar Badsha
1991 ANC conference, Durban
©South African History Online: Omar Badsha
1991 ANC conference, Durban
©South African History Online: Omar Badsha
1991 ANC conference, Durban
©South African History Online: Omar Badsha
1991 ANC conference, Durban
©South African History Online: Omar Badsha
1991 ANC conference, Durban
©South African History Online: Omar Badsha
Madiba squares up to the camera. "I never did any real fighting after I entered politics."
©Times Media Limited)
Nelson Mandela & Graça Machel, South Africa
©Louise Gubb
Mandela in Umtata, in his first suit,presented to him by the regent
© Mayibuye Centre
Content: Biography
Childhood and Education (1918-1930s)
An African Nationalist comes of age (1940s)
'Volunteer in chief' - a decade of defiance (1950s)
Revolutionary Guerrilla Leader (1960s)
Mandela in Retirement (1999-) Sources (Bibliography)
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A history of the ANC (feature) Mandela's contemporaries An autobiographical note written by Nelson Mandela in 1964