Nelson Mandela's Alienation In South Africa

Despite Nelson Mandela’s dense progress to improve Black lives quality, once out of power, his progress was highly maintained by the successor Thabo Mbeki (1999-2002), who focused on improving aspects, which Nelson Mandela and de Klerk had previously achieved. Thabo Mbeki was responsible for the change in the South African society as he worked on various aspects of quality of life yet some of his decisions were quite contradicting. He began with the decision of inducing the creation of the ‘two nations’, which was the alienation of whites, which resulted in the creation of some tension between both races. This meant that Mbeki was contradicting all the previous work of Mandela and De Klerk to attempt a unification of South Africa in order

But this could be argued in various forms that it was not necessarily true, because Mbeki began implementing this separation program that caused obvious tension, which made his rule more difficult. However, it is argued that Mbeki is not narrow minded, nor a corrupt leader, but that he lacked strategic adaptability (Gerrit 2). Which is debatable, but comprehensive because he did have issues regarding the application of strategies in a way that could benefit the population while being “modern”, but what ended up making him unpopular. So, Thabo Mbeki was the one expected to be responsible for the politics post Mandela and De Klerk in South Africa, yet he is also criticized for being “a self-proclaimed modernizer in a government laced with incompetent, corrupt cronies; a critic of world capitalism for the widening patterns of inequality while he embraced conservative macroeconomic policy at home” (Foster 13). This established that Mbeki was not coming with positive changes, which he claimed were, but in fact did not aid South Africa or it’s population. Yet in the other

For instance, Nelson Mandela is the most iconic leader of which most of the world population is aware of his benefit for the life quality of the segregated men and women. However, the population is not aware that Nelson Mandela was looking to unify South Africa and so used this desire to influence and improve the aspects of economics and democracy of South Africa while also improving the lives of South Africans. This is seen through interviews in which the population after his rule (1994) claim to be prouder of being South African, which in this case is a wonderful result because it meant that the population had their lives improved in such way that they believed in their identity. De Klerk’s presidency wasn’t as iconic as Mandela’s due to the fact that he didn’t begin many programs and strategies to improve the life of the repressed population, rather that he was the one who took the first steps to ending the Apartheid regime through suppressing Acts, liberating public areas etc; which could be argued that he did in fact improve the life of Blacks in South Africa but not in a direct, and rich way like Mandela, due to the