Question

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?​

Answer 1

Answer :-

• The "extraordinary disaster" that Mandela talks of in his inaugural presidential speech is the effect of the long drawn apartheid policy practised by the whites in South Africa. This policy had inflicted unthinkable, inhuman and harsh atrocities on the dark skinned people in their own country. This was against natural justice because God has made everyone equal and rights of one man could not be allowed to be suppressed by another solely on the basis of the difference in the colour of the skin.

• The "glorious human achievement", about which Mandela speaks in the end, is the eventual victory of the 'outlaws', who after making countless sacrifices, finally won the first democrate elections in South Africa to form a govermment which was non racial. This achievement was glorious as it had been gained a undergoing hardships for many centuries.

Answer 2

By  ‘an  extraordinary  human  disaster’  Mandela  means  to  state  the  practice  of apartheid  in  South  Africa.  During  this  there  was  a  racial  segregation  based  on colour  and  the  blacks  suffered  a  lot.  They  were  not  allowed  to  demand  freedom  or any  right.  Mandela  himself  did  spend  many  years  on  infamous  ‘Robben  Island’  as a  prisoner  where  he  was  beaten  mercilessly.  He  considered  it  as  great  glorious human  achievement that a black  person  became  the President of  a  country where the  blacks  were  not even  considered  human  beings and  were  treated  badly.

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