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List of awards and honours received by Nelson Mandela

This is a comprehensive list of awards, honours and other recognitions bestowed on Nelson Mandela. Mandela received more than 260 awards over 40 years, most notably the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

From 1994 to 1999, Mandela was President of South Africa. He was the first such African to be elected in fully representative democratic polls.

Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist and leader of the African National Congress and its armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe. He spent 27 years in prison, much of it in a cell on Robben Island. The rest of his incarceration was in Pollsmoor Prison, on convictions for crimes that included sabotage committed while he spearheaded the struggle against apartheid.

Following his release from prison on 11 February 1990, his advocacy of a policy of reconciliation and negotiation helped lead the transition to multi-racial democracy in South Africa. Since the end of apartheid, he was widely praised, even by former opponents.

Mandela died on 5 December 2013 as a celebrated statesman who continued to voice his opinion on topical issues. In South Africa he is often known as Madiba, an aristocratic title adopted by the elderly members of the royal clan that he belonged to. This title has come to be synonymous with Nelson Mandela.

1960s

  • 1964 Ã¢Â€Â“ Elected Honorary President of the Students' Union, University of Leeds

1970s

1981

1983

1984

1985

1986

1987

1988

1989

1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

  • Africa Peace Award Ã¢Â€Â“ sponsored jointly by the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD) and the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) Ã¢Â€Â“ presented at a ceremony in Durban, March
  • Appointed an honorary member of the Order of Merit by Queen Elizabeth II
  • "Nelson Mandela Road" to Katse, Lesotho, inaugurated, 13 July
  • Received Pretoria Press Club's 1994 Newsmaker of the Year Award, Pretoria, 20 July
  • Granted the Freedom of Uitenhage, 14 September
  • Awarded Honorary Fellowship of the College of Medicine of South Africa, Johannesburg, 17 October
  • Harvard Business School Statesman of the Year Award, 14 December
  • Human Rights Institute, with President Mandela as honorary chairman, launched in London by the International Bar Association, December 1995
  • The Wolf Award, presented in South Africa by Canadian aboriginal leaders Phil Fontaine and George Muswagon

1996

1997

1998

  • Received Honorary Doctoral Degree from the University of South Australia, University of Fort Hare, 23 April
  • Awarded Honorary Doctorate, University of Zululand, 30 May
  • Awarded the Freedom of the City and County of Cardiff, Cardiff, 16 June
  • Awarded the Chris Hani Award at the 10th National Congress of the South African Communist Party, Johannesburg, 1 July
  • Awarded Honorary Degree by the University of Mauritius, 11 September
  • Park in Montreal named again "Parc Nelson-Mandela", 14 September
  • Awarded Honorary Doctorate by Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 18 September
  • Awarded Congressional Gold Medal, Washington, 23 September
  • Appointed Honorary Companion of the Order of Canada by the Governor General of Canada on behalf of the Queen of Canada, 24 September.
  • Nelson Mandela public school named in his honour in Toronto.
  • Presented with Award in Recognition of his Contribution to Democracy, Human Rights and Freedom by the Supreme Council of Sport in Africa, 19 November
  • Created a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of St Olav by the King of Norway.

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

  • Amherst College honorary degree.
  • Listed as one of the 100 most influential people of 2005 by Time magazine

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2012

  • Received the Canadian version of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal
  • Received the Robben Island Alumnus Award in recognition of being a UNISA Robben Island Alumnus who has sacrificed so much for the liberation of South Africa.

2013

  • On 10 December 2013, the amphitheatre of the Union Buildings in Pretoria was renamed the Nelson Mandela Amphitheatre.
  • On 16 December 2013, a bronze statue of Mandela was unveiled at the Union Buildings in Pretoria.

2014

2015

2016

  • In 2016, a large Bronze statue of Mandela was unveiled in a square in Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank to honor his support to the Palestinians, where huge posters were installed with Mandela's statement: "We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians."

2018

On 24 September 2018, Heads of State and Government and representatives of States and Governments, met at United Nations Headquarters in New York, at the "Nelson Mandela Peace Summit" to reflect on global peace, in honour of the centenary of the birth of Nelson Mandela and to collectively hold themselves accountable to the values and principles of the declaration drafted and agreed upon at the summit, to strive for a just, peaceful, prosperous, democratic, fair, equitable and inclusive world. The world leaders called upon their people to celebrate the richness of our diversity and the collective creativity and wisdom of our elders, and the well-being and survival of Mother Earth, and called upon their youth, artists, sports personalities, musicians and poets to breathe new life into the values and principles of the United Nations and recognize the period from 2019 to 2028 as the Nelson Mandela Decade of Peace.

2019 to 2028

The UN Nelson Mandela Decade of Peace, an intergovernmental honour.

Summary of orders received

Coat of arms

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