The Long Walk Of Nelson Mandela
On July 18, 1918, a boy was born into royalty in a small village near Umtata in Transkei, South Africa. This boy grew to be known as an icon representing civil rights, equality, desegregation, and the unity of South Africa. His tribal name "Rolihlahla", means "shaker of trees," he is Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela. Nelson Mandela, a non-violent activist against racial oppression frustrated by unchanging policies, who then converted to a leader of infrastructural guerrilla warfare against the South African government, who then returned to his impassioned standards of non-violence thus freeing South Africa from apartheid in the name of justice, anti-racism and democracy.As a non-violent activist, Nelson Mandela fought for racial equality and freedom for his people. During this time Mandela was a member of Afri
While incarcerated, Mandela returned to his impassioned standards of non-violence. It would seem the governments attempt to remove Mandela from the publics eye backfired, since while incarcerated his popularity grew as did the numbers of people interested in the collapse of apartheid. A man who grew from his boyhood understanding the extreme importance of equality and civil rights. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, a man known as the leader of equality, democracy, desegregation, anti-oppression. Nelson Mandela never gave up hope for a free South Africa and upon his release from prison he was shortly thereafter elected president. Numerous beatings and killings such as those of the Sharpeville massacre proved that the opposition did not follow the non-violent approach. Mandela was elected to the ANCYL's Secretary ship in 1947. Frustrated that talking, educating, debating and civil disobedience were not influencing policies nor creating change but instead provided unsatisfactory results, the leadership realized that the non-violent passive resistance was only effective if the opposition adheres to the same rules. Such manipulations included "Go Slow" work-strikes, refusal to address prison guards as "bass", educating other prisoners, and hunger strikes. The "shaker of trees" bound by his commitment to free his people did so while implementing a non-violent approach, but the harsh reality of fowl play forced him to inflict infrastructure warfare, however, as the horrific policies continued unchanged, Mandela returned to his non-violent roots in the name of justice, anti-racism and democracy. Mandela, now a wanted man, remained underground for two years until his conviction at the Rivonia trial where he was found guilty of plotting to overthrow the government with violence and sentenced to life in prison.
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