Nelson MandelaBorn in 1918, Mandela is the first black president of South Africa. He is the winner of the Nobel peace prize in 1993 (Encarta Online Encylcopedia). He had a long struggle against racial discrimination in South Africa. He had been subjected to many hard things several times; in 1040 he was expelled from South Africa for participating in a student demonstration. He became the president of the African National Congress in 1951. When the National Party came to power his struggle increased because of the discrimination practiced by the National Party on the blacks.
In 1960 the police killed 69 blacks in a demonstration, because of that Mandela established the ANCÃÂÃÂs military wing and went to Algeria for military training. Once he returned to South Africa he was arrested and sentenced to life in prison in August 1962. While he was doing his time in prison he secretly started writing his autobiography ÃÂÃÂLong way to FreedomÃÂÃÂ.
Because of the international pressure the South African government was forced to release Mandela in February 1990. He won the Nobel prize for peace in 1993 and became the first black president of South Africa after the first multiracial elections took place in the country.
MandelaÃÂÃÂs acts and changes he has done can be related to our discussion in class and studies in different ways. The first thing is the type of system Mandela chose for his country and that is a federal system with a strong central government, this lies in the category of governmental systems. Another topic that can be related to our studies is the type of rule he made which is majoritarian but with keeping the rights of minorities and respecting freedom of speech. The way that Mandela added those things to the South African constitution can be related...