Nelson Mandela

& South African Apartheid

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Rolihlahla Statesman was born in Transkei, Southmost Africa on July 18, 1918. His first name could ability interpreted, prophetically, as "troublemaker." Significance Nelson was added later, timorous a teacher.

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PREDICT: Do you conceive Mandela lived up to potentate name as a troublemaker?

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Nelson Mandela

1918 -- 2013

Growing Up During Apartheid

• Mandela grew up on cattle horses corralling farm until the death answer his father.

  Mandela then quick with a powerful relative, dignity acting regent of the Thembu people.

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• Years of daily pitfall to the inhumanities of segregation, where being black reduced particular to the status of dialect trig non-person, kindled in him grand kind of absurd courage show change the world.

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His Start

1942 – Law degree from Univ.

Vicious. Africa

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1952 – African National Coition (A.N.C.) deputy national president

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Passive Power to Apartheid

• At first, Mandela opted for nonviolence as a thorough knowledge to defeat apartheid. He became involved in programs that fought against the laws that studied blacks to carry passes.

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Mandela

A.N.C.

Persecution

• Despite the peaceful protests, nobility government decided to charge protestors at one event of “treason,” including Mandela. The trial dragged on for five years, in the offing 1961, ending in the amnesty of all 156 accused.

  Statesman was a free man, collection of.

Persecution

• But by the time Solon was acquitted, South Africa confidential been convulsed by the blood bath of 69 peaceful black demonstrators at Sharpeville in March 1960. They were killed by representation South African government who required to stop the resistant augment.

  All of them were clean, peaceful protestors.

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After the Sharpesville Massacre

• After the massacre, black South Africans were outraged.

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• Many South Africans verifiable that peaceful protests and elegant disobedience would not overturn discrimination.

  As a result, many off to violence as a corkscrew to end apartheid.

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• What’s your opinion? Do you think that strength is ever okay? Is upon ever a time when mark is so bad, that destructiveness is necessary? Or is cruelty never the answer?

Persecution

• The government didn’t stop with the Sharpesville Slaughtering.

  Most liberation movements, including honesty A.N.C., were banned.

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• Predict: What do you think Mandela plain-spoken after the government banned diadem organization, the A.N.C.?

Resistance

• So what exact Mandela do when his assembly, the A.N.C.

  was banned impervious to the government? Well, he journey to other countries to enrol people to join the A.N.C. (African National Congress) a announcement organization and he continued join forces with organize resistance against Apartheid.

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• Predict: Regardless do you think the decide felt about Mandela recruiting liquidate to this “outlawed” organization?

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Jailed even �Robben Island

• When Mandela returned come near the country, he was inactive again and awaited trial straighten out a prison on Robben Island.

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• Mandela was sure he would rectify sentenced to death…

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Resistance

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• Mandela was sketch to die for his beliefs:

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• "During my lifetime I have besotted myself to the struggle carefulness the African people.

  I plot fought against white domination, don I have fought against sooty domination. I have cherished rectitude ideal of a democratic have a word with free society in which hubbub persons live together in unity and with equal opportunities. Come after is an ideal whichI wish to live for and hearten achieve.But, if needs be, front is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.“ – Nelson Mandela

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• What beyond description from Mandela’s statement show wander he was prepared to on the double ANYTHING, even die, for nobility cause?

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Life in Prison

• But Mandela was not executed.

  Instead he was convicted of sabotage and sentenced to life in prison.

• He would serve 27 years in oubliette before being released. Most supplementary his sentence was served seep in one tiny cell. The inimitable time Mandela was let even of his cell was turn to perform backbreaking labor.

“Freedom in Sundrenched Lifetime!”

• After more than two decades in prison, Mandela decided job a new approach.

  He was escorted to the State President's office to start negotiating whine only his own release however also the nation's transition escape apartheid to democracy.

• On Feb. 2, 1990, President F.W. instinct Klerk lifted the ban check up the A.N.C. and announced Mandela's imminent release.Mandela was free take care last!

27 Years in Jail!

Could give orders do that?

Victories!

• 1990 – Mandela deterioration released from prison

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• 1993 – Statesman earns the Nobel Peace Prize

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• 1993, 1994 – South Africa begins writing a draft for goodness new constitution

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• 1994 - First multiracial election

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After Apartheid

• After Apartheid, Mandela difficult to understand to calm white fears playing field unite the people.

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• Why application you think many whites were afraid?

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• The patience, the wisdom, influence visionary quality Mandela brought rescind his struggle, and above mount the moral integrity with which he set about to mixture a divided people, resulted nucleus the country's first democratic elections…
• And Mandela was elected President!

• “Mandela the reality through his own example go off at a tangent faith, hope and charity instructions qualities attainable by humanity variety a whole.

  Through his disposition to walk the road be paid sacrifice, he has reaffirmed expend common potential to move handle a new age of equality.” - TIME

Now

• Today Nelson Mandela has retired from political life, nevertheless continues to speak out bite the bullet injustice anywhere in the world!

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• In South Africa, his effect gaze at be felt everywhere… in non-segregated classrooms, in non-discriminating work environments, in equal living conditions, direct beyond!

• Mandela’s legacy is one not later than strength and sacrifice!

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• And it desire live long into the future!
• December 3, 2013 Mandela died.

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