1. Apartheid means separation between whites and blacks that live in South Africa from 1948 to the early 1994 it was made into international law but it was also a violation. Also when the law took place people were classified as whites, black/African or blacks of mixed cultured descent.
2. A language of southern African, derived from the form of Dutch brought to the Cape by Protestant settlers in the 17th century
3. White people in South Africa did not want black people as ruler so they protested to be separated from the blacks and in later years the blacks held strikes because of inferior working conditions.
4. Mandela was born on July 18 1918
5. Nelson Mandela was arrested and jailed because he was accused of treason by the South African government.
6. Nelson Mandela was first imprisoned in Howick, then transferred to Marshall Square prison. Mandela and his co-accused were transferred from Pretoria to the prison on Robben Island where he remained for the next eighteen of his twenty-seven years in prison. In March 1982 Mandela was transferred from Robben Island to Pollsmoor Prison.
7. Mandela mother and son died and he was not allowed to attend their funeral. His wife and daughter did not want to have anything to do with him because he choose to stay in jail.
8. Mandela spend 27 years in prison.
9. After Mandela came out of prison. South Africa's first multi-racial elections began in which full enfranchisement was granted were held on April 27, 1994. The ANC won 62% of the votes in the election, and Mandela was the leader of the ANC, was inaugurated on May 10, 1994. and the country's first black President.
10. His goals as President wanted peace between white people and black people and wanted everyone to be treated equally and come together as one nation. he accomplished his goals by focusing on what white people and black people have in common and bring them together by that (Rugby).
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