Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was the only member of the family to go to school and was named by the primary school head teacher
Nelson Mandela in 1937
Nelson Mandela in 1937
Nelson. When Mandela was nine years old, his father died of tuberculosis. The regent of the tribe became his guardian, and Mandela attended the Wesleyan Mission School, not far from his father's palace. According to Tengbu's habit, he began to practice at the age of 16. It took Mandela two years to complete the usual three years of junior high school. Because of his father's status, he was designated as the dynasty's successor. [1]

While studying at Fordhall University, Mandela met his lifelong friend and colleague, Oliver Tempo. And in Mandela's first year at university, he was involved in a student union boycott of the school's unreasonable policies. He was ordered to drop out and told he could not return to school unless he accepted the results of the student council election. Mandela only obtained a correspondence law degree from the University of London while in prison.

Shortly after leaving Fort Hall, Mandela arranged to marry the heir to the Tembo family. But he chose to escape and left his hometown for Johannesburg. Immediately after arriving in Johannesburg, he found a job as a security guard in a coal mine. However, when the mine owner discovered that Mandela was a fugitive nobleman, he was quickly fired. Mandela then found clerical work at a law firm in Johannesburg, where he completed his bachelor's degree by correspondence at the University of South Africa, after which he began studying law at Wits University in Johannesburg. Mandela lived in the town of Aleksandra, north of Johannesburg, while studying at Wits, and met his later anti-apartheid colleagues - Joslovo, Harris Wards and Ruth Foster. [2]