Nelson Mandela and Apartheid

In my own words, Apartheid was a policy of government of South Africa from 1948 to 1994. The policy was that colored people could not vote, especially in primarily elections.And it also like that people that were not white did not get full citizenship. So mainly apartheid was a racial segragation policy in South Africa that very much similar to the one in the US. This policy stated that white people were above everyone else and can vote, while the "Bantu" which is everyone else that is black mixed or Indian is nit able to. Nelson Mandela was put into jail because of this.

Nelson Mandela was a man who fought for the independence of South Africa. He was involeved in the ANC's fight to make sure that there was no violence was used and that non- violence was the methods to get freedom and justice and to stop the Apartheid. He was a hero because of this. He was in jail for 26 years and he got out, wrote a book, and still continued to fight for his country and the people admired that and when elections came in 1991, he was elected over the other person with 61% of the votes.