Nelson Mandela and

Gandhi

By: Luna Quesada, Agustina Kohan Miller,

Silvestre Lagos y Francisco Cavanagh.

GANDHI

INDEX GANDHI

.WHO WAS MOHANDAS GANDHI?

.CHILDHOOD .HOW MOHANDAS GANDHI WANTED TO STOP WAR?.WHY GANDHI HAD A HUNGER PROTEST?

WHO WAS GANDHI?

Mohandas Gandhi was an Indian revolutionary and

religious leader who used his religious power for political

and social reform. He was born on

October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, India

CHILDHOOD

Gandhi studied law when he was 20 years .He was not

the best student in all his school. When he was a kid he

didn't fight for peace. He studied in a school named

Alfred. On 1919 Mahatma Gandhi organized the first non

violent organization against British rule in India.

HOW DID GANDHI WANT TO STOP

WAR?When still alive, Mohandas Gandhi had many

admirers, both in India and abroad. But his martyrdom in

1948 made him an even greater symbol of peace. Twenty-

one years later, he was commemorated on this double-

sized United Kingdom postage stamp.But a strange thing is

that they never give him a nobel peace prize .

Gandhi had a hunger strike because he wanted

to demonstrate war that he would not eat

until they stop war. War stopped.

WHY GANDHI HAD A HUNGER

PROTEST?

NELSON

ROLIHLAHLA

MANDELA

Index

WHO WAS NELSON MANDELA?

CHILDHOOD

WHY DID HE WANT FREEDOM?

WHY HE WAS IN JAIL? & LIFE IN JAIL.

WHY DID MANDELA GET THE NOBEL

PEACE PRIZE?

Who was Nelson Mandela?

Nelson Mandela was born in July 18, 1918 in

Mvezo, a tiny village in Transkei. He’s original

name is Rolihlahla that in Xhosa means:

troublemaker. But when he went to school the

teacher called him Nelson.

Childhood

He was born in Transkei , South Africa with a Thembu tribe . His father was a

tribal chief. When he was 7 years old his father decided to send him to a

school, it was a mission school. His teacher put him another name, an english

name, she called him Nelson because at that times English people ruled.

When he was 9 years old his father died so his mom took him to live with a

friend of his father, in a village of Mqhekezweni. When he was 16 years old

uncle Jongi sent him to a Clarkebury boarding school. At the age of 21 he

went to a university of black people in the Eastern Cape.

Why he wanted freedom?

He wanted freedom because in 1948 the government

started passing laws that introduced apartheid. White

people lived in suburbs while black people lived in

townships. The government also built separate schools,

churches, cinemas, for white and for black. In 1952 he led

a protest. The government didn’t drop their apartheid

laws.

Why he was in jail? & Life in jail.

He was in jail because he left the country illegally. So he was sent five

years to prison. But when he was on the fifth month of prison he went on trial

again.

Two years later they found that eight of them were guilty. They told they

would be all life in prison. The jail was in Robben Island. Twenty years passed.

In 1982 he moved to another jail to Poormoor in Cape Town. In the 11 of

February of 1990 he walked out of jail. He had been 27 years in jail!

Why he get the Nobel peace prize?

Nelson Mandela got the Nobel peace prize because he

fought peacefully and did all that he could so coloured

people could have the same rights as all people. He won

that prize in the year 1993.At that time he didn’t win it

alone, he shared the prize with a man called Frederik

Willem de Klerk.

FIGHTING FOR LIBERTY.

Black or White

No matter what,

Rights are the same for everyone.

27 years in jail full of pain

Fighting in a peacefully way.

By: Luna Milberg & Agustina Kohan Miller

One man many names

He had many aims,

and he carry out all.

That’s why he had many names,

and reasons for all.

Some people called him father,

some people grandfather.

He fought for peace,

this is what he really is By: Luna Quesada and Siena Torres.

POEM:

Gandhi was a prime minister not as his sister.

Gandhi was kind.

Gandhi had a nice wife.

Gandhi was good ,he was not in bad mood.

He did not fight with a knife as knights.