Nelson Mandela and Apartheid

The Apartheid was a racial segregation policy which stated that white people were above everyone else and can vote, while on the other hand the "Bantu" which were everyone that is black mixed or Indian is not able to vote and were below everyone else. This system was almost the same as the one is the U.S, but there segregation lasted till the 1990's.

Nelson Mandela had a big impact on the people of South Africa. He fought for the independence of South Africa and his country is still healing from the Racism and Apartheid. Mandela was part of a group to enforce non-violence methods to get freedom and justice and to stop the Apartheid. He was in jail for 26 years. When he got out he wrote a book, and still continued to fight for his country and the people admired him for this and when elections came in 1991, he was elected over the other person with 61% of the votes.