Nelson Mandela was a prominent leader who overcame challenges, such as the apartheid government, creating a stable and nonracial, ‘New South Africa’. Leaving a strong, lasting legacy, Mandela did not only effect South Africa, but he effected countries and people around the globe by teaching nonviolence. Mandela was incarcerated for twenty seven years, fighting for freedom and equality for all races. Even though the whites were the minority in South Africa, they all ran South Africas’s government and made the apartheid, making the everyday life for non-whites very difficult. When Nelson Mandela, the political prisoner, was released from prison, he came out teaching nonviolence and having no hate towards any individuals. The journey of Nelson …show more content…
Apartheid literally means “apartness”, whites were superior to non-whites in this government. This system separated the white majority from its non-white majority, in fact, they took it further and also separated non-whites from each other, dividing blacks from tribal lines and then later adding Asian to the equation. Racial segregation during this time in South Africa went from De Facto Segregation, racial segregation that happens by fact, to De Jure Segregation, racial segregation enforced by laws and requirements. In 1950, apartheid became a law and the government banned marriages between whites and non-whites. In 1958, in the general election, only three million whites could participate, but the thirteen million Africans could not, making it very hard to change the government and the place South Africa …show more content…
This was difficult for him because he dropped his paying job for school, so money was very tight. He ended up dropping out of college because he kept failing exams and he ended up taking the qualifying exam and passed it. He opened his own office in 1852, mostly taking cases in about police brutality. Many of those cases were not won though. The 1913 Land Act was controversial and passed three years after South Africa gained its independence. This marked the beginning of territorial segregation by forcing black Africans to live in reserves and making it illegal for them to work as