NELSON MANDELA PRESENTATION

Nelson Mandela

PRESENTATION

11ºCT1André Vaz - Nº3João Ramos - Nº16Tomás Freire - Nº24

Teacher:Inocência Amaro

English Work Assignment

Index

Introduction

Democracy

Work Objectives

Conclusion

Main Achivements

Bibliography

Ideals

Incarceration

Introduction

Nelson Mandela, the first black president of South Africa, born in 1918 and passed away in 2013 at the age of 95. Was the activist and politician of the anti-apartheid movement who suppressed the black people in Africa.

Introduction

He was sentenced in 1964 to life in prison but was freed 26 years later after the great international oppression. Also, he received the “Noble peace prize", in December of 1993, because of his fighting against racial segregation regime.

Work Objectives

• Give a better perspective of what Nelson Mandela went through to fight against apartheid.
• Inform you more about Nelson Mandela and his past.
• Show that with hard work everything is achievable.

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Nelson's Mandela Achivements

Nelson Mandela has received countless rewards, over 260+ awards in 40 years, and we are going to talk of some of the most important ones. In 1990 he was released from Victor Verster Prison, situated in South Africa, after 26 years of imprisonment. The year after, 1991, he was elected president of the African National Congress (ANC).

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Nelson's Mandela Achivements

On December 10th, 1993, Mandela and de Klerk together won the Noble Peace Prize due to their efforts to end apartheid peacefully. In May of 1994 he was inaugurated as the first black democratically elected president of South Africa. After 5 years, in May 1999, he stepped down after one term as President and retired from active politics.

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Nelson Mandela's Ideals

Mandela’s dream was of a peaceful coexistence between people without discrimination based on gender or racial origins. He set the ideals of liberating people from the bondage of poverty, suffering and deprivation.

Nelson Mandela's Ideals

“An ideal from which I am prepared to die” - Mandela made this statement before the opening of his trial on charges of sabotage, in the Supreme Court of South Africa, Pretoria, 20th April 1964. That’s to show how serious Mandela was about his ideal, even to put his own life to before them.

Mandela's Incarceration

Mandela was arrested and imprisoned in 1964, and, following the Rivonia Trial, was sentenced to life in prison for conspiring to overthrow the state. Mandela served 26 years in prison, split between Robben Island, Pollsmoor Prison and Victor Verster Prison, the three prisons he served in.

Mandela's Incarceration

From 1964 to 1982 Mandela was incarcerated at Robben Island Prison, off Cape Town. He was subsequently kept at the maximum-security Pollsmoor Prison until 1988, when, after being treated for tuberculosis, he was transferred to Victor Verster Prison near Paarl, until he was set free in 1990.

Mandela’s democracy

In February 1990 the ANC and all other outlawed oppositional organisations were legalised, and Nelson Mandela was released from prison. This began a period of formal negotiation leading to South Africa’s first democratic elections in April 1994. Although the ANC, led by Mandela, won a sweeping victory in that election, it would manage the first five years of democracy-building through a Government of National Unity.

Mandela’s democracy

The nature of the transition to democracy meant that there would be no dramatic dismantling of the apartheid system. Rather, the new would be built out of the old through processes of transformation and reconciliation. These processes were given a powerful symbolic embodiment in the person of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela.

Mandela’s democracy

“All these considerations, as important as they may be, should never be allowed to undermine our democratic Constitution, which guarantees unqualified citizenship rights to all South Africans … It has a bill of rights on which a citizen can rely if any of his or her rights are threatened or violated. All of us, without exception, are called upon to respect that Constitution.”

-Nelson Mandela

Conclusion

Wrapping up our look at Nelson Mandela's life, we've seen a really strong story of never giving up. Mandela faced some tough times fighting against unfair rules in South Africa, and he even spent a long time in jail for it. But when he finally got out, he didn't give up – instead, he worked hard to make things better for everyone.

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Conclusion

We saw that sticking to what you believe in, no matter what, can make a big difference. Mandela's dream of a world without discrimination, poverty, and suffering could not be partly achieved if he gave up. His story is like a guide, showing us that even when things seem really hard, positive change is possible.

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Bibliography

-https://www.nelsonmandela.org-https://www.britannica.com-https://www.judgesmatter.co.za-https://www.vukuzenzele.gov.za-https://www.unitedway.org-https://www.un.org-https://www.ebiografia.com

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