1934, along with Justice and 24 others, to become a man and put aside childish ways. He undergoes ritual circumcision at 16 y/o c.
The Dutch Jan Van Riesbeck arrived at the Cape of Good Hope 1652. Joyi says the blacks lived in relative peace until the coming of the white man and the shattering of their fellowship. Chief Joyi tells of Ngangelizwe's heroism fighting the British and rails against the white man. NM becomes interested in history, learning about African heroes. But women were second-class citizens with no voting privileges. Tribal meetings held there demonstrated the democracy customary in Thembuland-consensus was emphasized. Mission schools trained the blacks to become clerks, interpreters, and policemen. Chieftancy and Church dominated his life there. It was a mission station of the Methodist church and therefore Westernized. The regent Jongintaba volunteered to become his guardian and his mother soon took him to the Great Place, Mqhekezweni, the provisional capital of Thembuland and royal residence of Jongintaba Dalindyebo and his wife No-England. His father died of a lung disease 1927 at 9 y/o. He started at 7 y/o (1925) and was given the name Nelson by his teacher. His father's amaMfengu friends the Mbelkela brothers recommended that NM be sent to school and his parents consented. The abaMfengu were the most educated and adapted to the whites. Children were expected not to ask questions of adults. NM loved to stick fight, fighting boys from other villages. Most of the fathers lived away, working in Johannesburg, and his mother tended the crops of maize (corn or "mealies"), sorghum, etc. This led to increased poverty and NM's mother was forced to move to the village of Qunu near Umtata when NM was an infant. His father served like the PM of Thembuland but was an appointed, non-hereditary leader, and lost his position after a display of insubordination with the local white magistrate. The regent Jongintaba was appointed with NM's father's urging, a favor he later repaid by taking on responsibility for NM. Matazima (Kalzer Daliwonga), who later contested leadership against NM. 1942, father of Justice), Sabata (ruled 1954-), Dabulamanzi, Melithafa, Nxebo, and Meliggili. in 1920s), who had sons Jongintaba Dalindyebo (the "regent", d. A son of Ngangelizwe was Jongilizwe Dalindyebo (d. He was succeeded by his son Mthikrakra, whose sons included Ngangelizwe and Matanzima. The rulers of the Thembu were descended from the great monarch King/Chief Ngubengcka of the Great House, who died 1832. The Bantus are the larger linguistic subdivision referring to the language spoken south of the line from Kenya to Cameroon, migrants from the area of Niger and more easterly. The Nguni are divided into the Northern group (the Zulu and Swazi) and a Southern, the Xhosa consisting of the amaBaca, abeThembu, etc.
He was raised to be a counselor to the future king Sabata and was not in line to be the hereditary king. NM speaks repeatedly of his love of its rolling hills and fertile valleys. Mvezo is in district of Umtata in the Transkei, 800 m east of Cape Town, in SE S Africa, between the Kei river to the S, Indian Ocean to the SE, and Natal to the NE and bordered to the N by the Drakenberg Mountains. His father was the son of Mandela of the Ixhiba house, a lesser house of the Madiba clan of the Thembu, a Xhosa speaking tribe. Named Rolihlahla ("pulling the branches of trees", connotes troublemaker) Mandela, later acquired clan name Madiba and given Christian name Nelson by first teacher. Overall Impression: A deeply inspiring work by an authentic modern hero, understandably slanted toward the nobleīorn Jin Mvezo to the village chief Gadla Henry Mphakanqiswa and one of his wives, Nodekeni Fanny. Quotations are for the most part taken from that work, as Summary by Michael McGoodwin, prepared 2000Īcknowledgement: This work has been summarized using the 1994 Little Brown & Co.Įdition. Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
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