Kath Walker time line

1920- Kath Walker was born in 1920

1941- Kath Walker joined the Australian Women's Army Service

1958- Kath Walker joined the Queensland Councli for Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders

1960- Kath Walker attended the Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement annual conferences

1962- Kath Walker became the first Queensland state secretary

1964- Kath Walker's first collection of poems was published by Jacaranda Press

1968- Kath Walker's political philosophy changed markedly.

1970- Kath Walker supported the 1970 Pittock amendments to the FCAATSI constitution 

1992- Kath Walker died

Fred Hollows

1929- Fred Hollows born in New Zealand
1958- Hollows was married with Mary Skiller
1961- Hollows went to Moorfields Eye Hospital in England to study ophthalmology
1965- Hollows moved to Australia and became Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney
1971- Hollows with Mum Smith and others set up the Aboriginal Medical Service in suburban Redfern in Sydney
1980- Hollows was married with Gabi O'Sullivan
1985- Hollows declined the award of honorary Officer of the Order of Australia
1989- Hollows adopted Australian citizenship
1990- Hollows was named Australian of the Year
1991- Hollows accepted the substantive award of Companion of the Order of Australia
1992- Hollows was launched as an Australian charitable foundation in Sydney
1993- Hollows died

the Nelson Mandela time line

1918- Nelson Mandela was born in Qunu, Soth africa
1937- Mandela moved to Healdtown
1940- Mandela returned to Mqhekezweni, Jongintaba had arranged marriages for Mandela
1941- Mandela fled to Johannesburg via Queenstown and found work as a night watchman at Crown Mines
1944- Mandela helped found the ANC Youth League
1949- Mandela was adopted by ANC
1952- Mandela opened the first Black Law firm in South Africa
1962- Mandela had been arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in the notorious Robben Island prison.
1990- Mandela was released from prison
1993- Mandela was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with F.W.De Klerk
1994- Mandela was inaugurated as the first democratically elected State President of South Africa
1999- Mandela retired
2001- Mandela was successfully treated for prostate cancer
2002- Mandela inaugurated the Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture
2003- Mandela created at Rhodes House, University of Oxford, to provide postgraduate scholarships to African students
2004- Mandela amid failing health
2013- Mandela died



Turn point

Whilst at university Nelson Mandela became increasingly aware of the unjust nature of South African Society. The majority of Black South Africans had little opportunities either Economic or Political.

expelled from Fort Hare for organising a student strike.

Mandela had to resign from the ANC and work underground.

 In the late 50s (56 ‒61) there was an extremely lengthy Treason Trial in which Mandela and several others were charged with treason.

However in 1960 the Sharpeville massacre of 63 black South African’s changed the whole political climate. South Africa was increasingly isolated on the international scene and the government banned the ANC. This led Mandela to advocate armed struggle through the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK).

However by 1962 Mandela had been arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in the notorious Robben Island prison. Life at the prison was tough and uncompromising.

 (Nelson Mandela recently lost his eldest son to this disease and Mandela has worked hard to campaign on this issue.)