Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Nelson Mandela


The Aparheid system is system that nonwhites are classified as Bantu(black) colored (mixed) or the Indins did not share the full rights of citizenship with the whitge minority. An example of the Aparheid system was that black people could not vot end up to 1990 many publick facilites didnt permite the use of one race. It was just simple a system of discrimanation, people were seperated according to the color or race into different regions. The whites had many advantages they had housing, jobs education and alot of political power. Anthough South Africa is going throught this systmem, then it was until 1991 that the system begain to collapse, then in 1993 it was thrown out altogether with the election of Nelson Mandela, he was the first black demoscraticazlly to be elected as President of South Africa.

Nelson Mandela was a fighter. By this I mean, instead of hiim bowing down to the system he fought to get rid of the system and to get Africa freedom. He started out as leader of underground political movemnt called the Nation congress( ANC). He was agains the system and against of the white having all the power. However his carrer in ANC was not for to long, he was sentenced to life to prison. Their was no reason for Nelson to be in jail, the white South Africa governemt just didnt want Nelson to get in the way. However even in jail he fought for his right still he didnt stop he continued to be a beacon. In 1990 after 27 years of prison Mandela was finally free. Then less than fiver years he had ended the aparheid and he wa awarded the NOble Peace Price, and was elected as president. Now everyone in African had equal rights and equal oportunities. Nelson Mandela he freed Africa from the whites and the system.

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