At the beginning of his speech, Mandela mentions “an extraordinary human
disaster”. What does he mean by this? What is the “glorious … human
achievement” he speaks of at the end?
NCERT Class 10th: First Flight English Ch 2 Long Walk to Freedom
Answers
Mandela mention an extraordinary human disaster at the
beginning of his speech referring
to the inhuman practice of aparthied...
The glorious human
achievement that he
refers in the end of
his speech referring to
the establishment. of
the first non racial democratic government .
Answer:
At the outset of his speech, Mandela made reference to an unprecedented human catastrophe: apartheid. The construction of the first non-racial democratic government is the great human achievement to which he refers at the conclusion of his address.
Explanation:
By "human calamity," Mandela implies that racial prejudice on the part of white people has caused a great deal of suffering for coloured people. The fact that a black person was elected president of a nation where black people are not treated well and are not regarded to be human beings was seen by him as a tremendous and magnificent human achievement. The fact that a black person was elected president of a nation where black people were mistreated and denied even the most fundamental human rights was seen by him as a "beautiful human achievement."
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