Birth Name: Rolihlahla Mandela
Place of Birth: Mvezo, Cape Province, South Africa
Date of Birth: 18 July 1918
Date of Death: 5 December 2013
Ethnicity: Thembu South African
Family info: Nelson Mandela was the former president of South Africa and well remembered as the man who ended apartheid in South Africa. His great grandfather was the ruler of the Thembu people in the Transkeian Territories of South Africa’s modern Eastern Cape province. Thembu is a Xhosa speaking tribe. His name Mandela was the name of his grandfather and his first name Nelson was given to him by his teacher at the age of 7.
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