Teaching Tolerance

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Teaching Tolerance

• Nelson Mandela

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• Apartheid means apartness ,  being apart . It
  advocates the separate development of the races.
  Apartheid was introduced in South Africa at the
  beginning of the 20th century and reinforced in
  1948 when the National Party came to power. There
  were no voting rights for non-whites, no
  relations with whites except at work there were
  townships. There was social and economic
  discrimination.
• Black peoples resistance brought this terrible
  regime to an end.

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• Nelson MANDELA was born in 1918. He studied law.
  In 1943 he joined the ANC (African National
  Congress) to fight against white domination and
  later against the apartheid laws which were
  instituted from 1948 by the National Party.

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• In 1963 he was sentenced to life imprisonment
  for his action against apartheid. He was charged
  with sabotage against the government.
• He spent 27 years in jail

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• On February 11th 1990 he was released from
  prison.
• This decision signalled to the world that a
  milestone had been passed. South Africa was ready
  to negociate across the color line.

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• On that day Mandela delivered exactly the same
  speech, word for word, as the one he had given 27
  years earlier when he had been convicted. He said
  I greet you all in the name of peace,
  democracy and freedom for all.I have cherished
  the idea of a democratic and free society in
  which all persons live together in harmony and
  with equal opportunities an idea which I hope
  to live for and for which I am prepared to die

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• When he was released his main goal was to
  negociate with De Klerk to complete the
  dismantling of apartheid, to organize free
  elections and also to unite the nation.

In 1993 Mandela was awarded the Nobel Prize for
Peace.
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• In 1994 with more than 80 of the population
  consisting of blacks and coloreds voting for the
  first time, the ANC won the election (the first
  democratic elections) with 63 of the votes.
  Mandela became the first black South-African
  President.

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• The Truth and Reconciliation Commission began in
  1995. People, white or black, who had committed
  crimes related to the struggle over apartheid
  were asked to admit to them. If a person
  confessed, he faced no punishment.
• Mandela retired in 1999 and was succeeded by ANC
  leader Thabo Mbeki.

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• Mandela devoted his life to realize the vision
  of democracy and spent 27 years in prison for the
  crime of challenging apartheids brutality. He is
  a symbol of resistance for all South Africans and
  oppressed people over the world. Today he
  dedicates himself to the fight against AIDS.

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