Nelson Mandela: A Revolutionary Leader Against Apartheid

Famous public person
Nelson Mandela

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Mr. Nelson Mandela was a South African political leader, anti apartheid revolutionary
and social philanthropist, who was born in Mvezo, Cape Province on 18th July 1918. He also
served as the President for the South Africa between time periods of 1994 to 1999. Mr. Nelson
Mandela become South Africa’s first elected governmental official though the country’s first
fully representative democratically held electoral elections and in the process also became South
Africa’s first black head of the state (Mandela, 2018). While in power as the president, Mr.
Nelson Mandela and his government focused their efforts on dismantling the past legacy of
apartheid by placing emphasis on tackling institutionalised racism within South Africa and
fostering a sense of racial reconciliation. Mr. Nelson Mandela was an ideological socialist and an
African nationalist through his entire political and social career and died on 5th December 2019,
aged 95 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
MAIN BODY
Racism or racial inequality within the society is the belief held by individuals within the
population, that humans who possess different behavioural traits based on their physical
appearance, colour of skin and are thus capable to be socially divided on the basis of superiority
of one race over that of another. This belief often results in the discrimination, prejudice or
antagonism that is directed by individuals belonging to superiorly perceived race upon the
individuals belonging to individuals of the perceived lesser race. Gender Inequality is the social
belief that is held by individuals within a population that acknowledges that women and men are
not equal on various factors and thus encourages the discrimination of one gender on the basis of
this belief in the society (Sampson, 2018). Gender discrimination is the discrimination of
individuals belonging to a particular gender simply on the basis of them belonging to that
particular gender. Both racial and gender discriminations are prevalent in human history and are
social issues that Mr. Nelson Mandela vehemently opposed and directed efforts through his
activisms, political rallies and philanthropy in order to negate and eliminate within the society of
South Africa.