What Is Nelson Mandela

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“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” (Nelson Mandela, former president of president of South Africa, 1993 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate). A man whose struggle and dream led his people to freedom, South Africa’s significant leader who led them in their fight for equal rights. Coming from a country that experienced great racial segregation between the black and whites, in the time of this great separation ‘apartheid’. In This essay I will write on the life of the late Nelson Mandela, his childhood and politics. Where I shall state the role he played in his country and internationally and also write about his and social achievement whiles in power and how this has impacted on International Relations. …show more content…

His Father Nkois Mphakanyiswa Henry Gadla, a local chief and councillor was fairly rich enough to maintain four wives and thirteen children including four boys and nine girls, Mandela’s mother Nonqaphi Nosekeni being the third wife. (Lodge, 2006, p2) Mandela grew up in the village of Qunu in his very early years where he spent herding cattle and playing with the boys in the district. (The famous people, p1) he then attended missionary school in qunu where he was given his English name of Nelson, by his white missionary teacher (lodge, 2006, p3) in this Missionary school Mandela studies English, Xhosa, history and geography. Mandela’s father pasted away in 1927 where he was placed under the care of his father’s cousin Jongitaba Dalindyebo who treated Mandela as his own. Mandela completed his studies at …show more content…

Nelson Mandela was one of the many leaders of the ANC youth league also known as ‘ANCYL’ who built their ideas from nationalism (their strong belief that a certain state should be free of overseas control), ‘They believed that Africans would be freed only by their own efforts’ (ANC, p1) This organisation had set goals to find new political petitioning ways and strategies of boycotting and striking, to bring about redistribution of land, rights of trade unions and free compulsory education for all the children of South Africa. In 1950 Mandela was appointed to ANCYL national president with this new role Mandela continues to tackle against racism where his ideas expand into national liberation. This led Mandela into a path which he was inspired by Mahatma Ghandi of a non- violence resistance, he organised a campaign against apartheid with other groups such as the Indians which started small but grew very rapidly. Mandela engaged in peaceful, nonviolent acts of defiance against the South African government and its racist policies (biograpy.com Editors. 2016, p1) their main aim was to make ANC into a great movement deriving the rural peasants and working class people. Mandela was arrested on various occasions firstly on the 2nd

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