Growing up in the royal kraal of the Madiba clan, Mandela was groomed to be advisor to the King of Thembus. "In my youth in the Transkei I listened to the elders of my tribe telling stories of the ...

But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die." Nelson Mandela was born in 1918 into the Madiba tribal clan - part of the Thembu people - in a small village in the Eastern Cape of ...