Nelson Rolilsondela Mandela Essay

Zeb Lureman Draft

Martin Luther King Jnr once said “Life’s most important question is, what are you doing for others”? Mandela answered this by spending most of his life protesting and fighting against the racist policies of apartheid, introducing new regimens in order to combat poverty. Mandela would ultimately become a world famous humanitarian who would go on to fight for the most noble of causes. His drive to be a great leader would go on to inspire a nation and end one of the most racially biased policies.

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid representative and humanitarian, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He became South Africa’s first black president.

Mandela was born in the village

Mandela could only receive one 30 minute visit a year and one letter every six months denying him any basic rights as a prisoner. Despite all of this, Mandela was a charming and cunning man and used dignified defiance to bend even the most brutal prison officials to his will. He became a master of his own prison. His prison experience would help him emerge as a mature leader after prison. Nelson Mandela would eventually transfer to prisons Pollsmoor and Victor Verster in much more luxurious confines. However he was still under surveillance by government

Mandela would go on to propose an end to apartheid with current president at the time Frederik Willem de Klerk and organised the 1994 multiracial general election in which Mandela carried the ANC to victory making himself 1st black president of South Africa. Mandela emphasised mainly on a compromise between the countries ethnic groups and created the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in attempts to explore past human rights abuses. Mandela introduced measures to encourage infrastructure development, combat poverty and the expansion of healthcare services. Mandela resigned, denying himself a second presidential term in 1999 and was replaced by his deputy Thabo Mbeki. Mandela would go on to help combat HIV/AIDS as well as poverty through the Nelson Mandela Foundation. “Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human beings”. After the demise of apartheid Mandela would go on to be a humanitarian, helping others by placing forward many noble causes such as developing the Mandela foundation in hopes to aid many living in poverty or