Nelson Mandela

Who is Nelson Mandela?

Nelson Mandela is a very, old man, who is living in South Africa.
Nelson Mandelas life started in a little village, in the country site of South Africa. Hes father was the chief of the little village. In the beginning Nelson was'nt named Nelson, but  Rolihlahla. But in hes school, the teachers were white an they could'nt pronounce  Rolihlahla, so the gave him the name, Nelson. Nelson were growing, an he started to see how awful the white people were treating the blacks. Apartheid, it was called - the whites were discriminating the blacks, the blacks were people, just like the whites, but because of the colour of there skin, they became different. Nelson were shocked. He wanted to change hes country. Nelson were going Johannesburg and contacted ANC - African National Congress. Soon the became the chef and he started to demonstrate. Nelson Mandela wanted a nonviolence struggle for freedom, but that was not easy, because the whites were using weapons to stop the demonstrations. Nelson went to prison. In hes entire life he has been in prison for 27 years. But it was worthwhile, when he were set free, the country changed. Now the blacks were alloud to vote, and they all voted for Nelson, so he became the first president of South Africa. Nelson Mandela gave hes whole life to the struggle against apartheid! What a man!

Explanations

Please give an explanation for following words:

- Apartheid: Apartheid is an dutch word which means "being taking apart". In South Africa they did, they took blacks and whites people apart. They were not alloud to sit on the same benches, to use the same toilets, to drive in the same busses, to stand in the same lines and the black were not even alloud to vote.

Segregation: Segregation means to seperat people, like they did in South Africa. For example, they made a line a cross the beach, and the black people had to be on one side and the white people on the other.

Discrimination: Discrimination means to treat people different then others, just because you don´t like them or because they are black or handicaped for example. Exactly what happened in South Africa, the whites were treating the blacks different, just because they were black!? I think discrimination is absolutly awful, so mean and really, really stupid to do!