explain nelson mandela role in making south Africa an independent state
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Nelson Mandela was an activist of South Africa. He helped bring an end to the Apartheid in South Africa. He was very much influenced by Gandhi to an extent that he even adopted the policy of non- violence. As the president of the African National Congress party he launched peaceful protests. When his policy of peaceful struggle failed he and his party launched the armed resistance against the White minority. In 1962, he was arrested and jailed and afterwards convicted to life imprisonment for planning to abolish the country following the Rivonia Trial. Therefore, his discussions with the South African Pres. F.W. de Klerk, assisted him to end the Apartheid system of racial segregation and led a nonviolent transition to the rule of the majority.