jueves, 19 de junio de 2008

Nelson Mandela (Argumentative Essay)

Nelson Mandela was born in July 18- 1918 and he was the eleventh President of South Africa, after that he spend 27 years in prison, much of it on Robben Island, Mandela was as anti-apartheid activist and leader of the African National Congress for these reason he became a symbol of freedom and equality, for these ponderous reasons Mandela has been the biggest leader in Africa and he had a big influence in racial matters.


Apartheid was a system of classified inhabitants and visitors into racial groups, Under Apartheid, South African blacks were stripped of their citizenship. Between opponents of apartheid in South Africa and internationally, Nelson Mandela became a symbol of independence and equality; Inspired by Gandhi, he created the ANC, the principal theory of this organization promoted methods of fight doesn’t violence to, this shows the good leadership exerted by him, and it justifies that he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.


In addition many important organizations like ONU support Mandela’s thought especially because human rights were violated, since 1948 the apartheid figure within the program of the general assembly, later in 1966 the apartheid was condemned like “crime of humanity” and on 1994 Mandela speak at the ONU assembly and he indicated that it was the first time that African Chief of State originated of black race towards.


For the other hand defenders of the apartheid in its majority white people, the discrimination against the black was based legally on which these were not citizen of South Africa, also they based their theory in Nazi’s thought and they want to obtain a barren raze in Africa.


In conclusion Mandela is one of the best leaders through the years for these reason he has received more than one hundred awards over four decades, most notably the Peace Prize.

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