PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Nelson Mandela was a
South African activist and the former president of South Africa. He ended apartheid and has become a global advocate for human rights. he was also a leader of both peaceful protests and armed resistance against the white minority’s oppressive regime in a racially divided South Africa. His actions landed him in prison for 3 decades and made him the face of an international antiapartheid movement. He was released from prison in 1990 participated in the removing of the part hie and In 1994 became the First Black President of South A. He formed a multiethnic government to oversee the country’s transition. Retired form politics in 1999, he still remained devoted to FREEDOM until he died in 2013
He best displayed the tenant of call to family, community , and Participation. He is an example of this tenant because he worked tirelessly even in jail to help make the rights in South Africa as equal as possible by using his outside help and becoming the face of the S. African "revolution" he also brought S. Africa together.
Not to long ago, in Washington’s highest circles, he was considered an enemy of the United States. In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan placed Mandela’s African National Congress on America’s official list of “terrorist” groups. In 2004, after Mandela criticized the Iraq War an article came out saying that Mandela was a communist, he supported communism ,and that he supported Saddam Hussein. They called him a “terrorist” because he had waged armed resistance to apartheid. They called him a “communist” because the Soviet Union was the ANC’s chief external benefactor and the South African Communist Party was among its closest domestic allies.
Mandela’s message to America’s leaders: Don’t pretend you are pure.
In a 2003 interview with the FA, John Barnes admitted that he was lucky enough to spend three surreal hours talking with Mandela "Mandela was different - he is the only man I have been properly in awe of… I am not ashamed to say I had my picture taken with him and it hangs proudly on my wall at home."
What I found that was so interesting was that he stayed dedicated to his cause even in prison and that even though America considered him terrorist or communist the people didn't agree with that.
