explain the role of nelson mandela in promoting democracy in the world
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2.Mandela then became president of the ANC executive in 1950 and from 1952, inspired by the values of Mahatma Gandhi started a non-violent movement against apartheid.
3.Mandela through non-violent methods gained worldwide respect and was subsequently jailed many times under charges of terrorism.
4.As part of the charge of treason against Mandela, he was then imprisoned in Robben Island in isolation for 18 years between 1964 and 1982.
5.By the time of Mandela’s 70th birthday in 1988, violence against the white rule and supremacy had spread throughout the country.
6.Following the fall of Berlin wall, international sanctions and boycott, forced the South African president De clerk called for free elections.
7.In 1994, South Africa saw the first elections in which all participated and Mandela was elected president of South Africa.
8.The transition from apartheid was peaceful and hardly had any violence due to leadership of Mandela.
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.
As a result of his struggles, South Africa, a State criticized by the entire world as the most autocratic is now recognized as a model of democracy.