The Last decade before the beginning of the new millennia was destined to be anticlimactic. What else could it be with everyone looking to the future the promise of not only a new decade and century but of a millennium. To children raised on Back to the Future 1,2, & 3, Huxley and Orwell, the future had infinite possibilities, even though 1982 hadn’t proven to be an honest representation of the future, it doesn’t stop us from building thoughts and assumptions based on stories. A lot of negative things happened in the 90s the deaths of Princess Diana, John F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife, Kurt Cobain, and Freddy Mercury. Countries split and came together, people were massacred, threats of bombings and successful bombings. However, instead of focusing
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Looking back at history is all about finding the threads that tie time and events together. Nelson Mandela’s story is one of those threads; in 1964 Mandela (the leader of the anti-apartheid African National Congress (ANC)) was sentenced to life imprisonment for sabotage and treason. The ANC had campaigned peacefully for a long time but after brutal suppression of unarmed protestors and the banning of the ANC, sadly the leaders also turned to violence, after the bombing of government installations and other terrorist attacks the country’s security force cracked down on the ANC leading to Mandela’s arrest in 1962. However, in 1990 the President of South Africa F.W. de Klerk opened the South African Parliament with speech that show his intention to end the apartheid system forever, he also lifted the bans on the ANC and other illegal organizations and promised to free political prisoners Mandela included. Therefore, nine days later on February 11, 1990 Nelson Mandela walked out of Victor Verster prison a free man after 27 years of imprisonment, his wife Winnie at his side. Then in 1993 both Mandela and F.W. de Klerk were awarded the Nobel peace prize for their work towards a society of peace for all races. Mandela and de Klerk weren’t friends, their relationship rocky at
Looking back at history is all about finding the threads that tie time and events together. Nelson Mandela’s story is one of those threads; in 1964 Mandela (the leader of the anti-apartheid African National Congress (ANC)) was sentenced to life imprisonment for sabotage and treason. The ANC had campaigned peacefully for a long time but after brutal suppression of unarmed protestors and the banning of the ANC, sadly the leaders also turned to violence, after the bombing of government installations and other terrorist attacks the country’s security force cracked down on the ANC leading to Mandela’s arrest in 1962. However, in 1990 the President of South Africa F.W. de Klerk opened the South African Parliament with speech that show his intention to end the apartheid system forever, he also lifted the bans on the ANC and other illegal organizations and promised to free political prisoners Mandela included. Therefore, nine days later on February 11, 1990 Nelson Mandela walked out of Victor Verster prison a free man after 27 years of imprisonment, his wife Winnie at his side. Then in 1993 both Mandela and F.W. de Klerk were awarded the Nobel peace prize for their work towards a society of peace for all races. Mandela and de Klerk weren’t friends, their relationship rocky at