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35 Powerful Facts About Worldwide Peacemaker, Nelson Mandela

President of South Africa - African National Congress
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28. In College, He Ran Away to Johannesburg

Nelson Mandela on the roof of Kholvad House. Herbert Shore / the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation / Nelson Mandela.org.

Johannesburg is one of the largest cities in South Africa, and Mandela fled there when he found out that Chief Jongintaba Dalindyebo had arranged for him to get married. He worked different jobs that he could find to support himself and signed up for correspondence courses at the University of South Africa. He continued work towards his bachelor’s degree in the evenings.

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