“Afrikas Held“:
Ø 1918: Nelson Mandela’s birth in Mvezo (name at birth: Rolihlahla Mandela)
Ø 1942: Mandela joins the “African National Congress”
Ø 1956: charge of treason due to the ANC’s resistance to the apartheid policies (absolvitor 1961)
Ø 1958: marriage of Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela
Ø 1960: interdiction of the ANC
Ø August 5, 1962: Mandela is arrested on a charge of sabotage
Ø 1964: conviction to life imprisonment
Ø 1962- February 11, 1990: prison term because of the planning of an armed struggle
Ø 1990: the ANC’s prohibition is raised
Ø 1993: Mandela receives the Nobel Peace Prize
Ø April 1994: free elections in South Africa
Ø 1994-1999: Mandela’s term in office as the first black South African president
Ø 1999: Thabo Mbeki becomes Mandela’s successor as president
Ø Even after his retirement he collects money for the AIDS aid, conciliates in African civil wars a.s.o.
“Ein Monster als Clown!”:
Ø In mid-19th-century, the cruel absolutist King Mutesa I. spread fear and terror in Uganda
Ø 1924: Idi Amin’s birth in north Uganda (name at birth: Idi Awo-Ongo Angoo)
Ø 1941: Accession to the “King’s African Rifles” (a British colonial protection force)
Ø Develops a vast hatred for the British (probably due to the Rifles’ racist cast system)
Ø 1966: Amin becomes command in chief of Uganda’s fighting forces
Ø 1971: assumes the power in Uganda due to a putsch against Milton Obote
Ø Putsch victims: 8 military officer and 3 civilians
Ø 1971-1979: the death toll during his dictatorship amounts several hundred of thousands
Ø 1972: 40000 Asians, with British passports, are banished
Ø “Operation Mafuta Mingi” àdisastrous economical effects on Uganda
Ø Consensus in those times: Idi Amin = Africa’s hero (!) (especially the media loved him)
Ø His most prominent victim: the 75-years-old Dora Bloch
Ø His last victims: two “Stern”-employees
Ø Nickname: “Big Daddy”
Ø Religion: pious Muslim
Ø 1979: After the defeat in the war against Tanzania, Amin escapes into exile in Saudi-Arabia
Ø August 16, 2003: Idi Amin’s death in the Saudi-Arabian city Dschidda (cause of death:
liver-/kidney failure)
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