Nelson Mandela In South Africa

Register to read the introduction… de Klerk, an anti-apartheid politician, was elected the last White South African president to date. The first major action he took as president, in response to both international and domestic pressure, was to lift the ban of the ANC and he released Mandela in February 1990, after more than a quarter century imprisonment. de Klerk and Mandela both received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 for their work against apartheid. (The Nobel Peace Prize 1993, Web)
The next year in South Africa's very first multi-racial elections, Nelson Mandela was chosen to be South Africa's first non-white president by an exceptionally large margin. During his presidential campaign, he was “on a mission to change the way that South Africa operated”. As president, he would not stand to see his people suffer under apartheid. His first major step toward this enormous reformation of South Africa was to establish a new Constitution, which promoted majority rule and democracy. (Boddy-Evans, Web)
Nelson Mandela is a significant man in history because of his enduring resistance of apartheid and everything that it stood for. He led numerous anti-apartheid demonstrations throughout his life. He went to jail for 27 years and still came out confident about the reform of South Africa. He was elected president in the countries first multiracial election and changed the entire South African constitution and government to allow equal rights and treatment of all races and ethnic