Today, Saturday, marks the seventh anniversary of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela’s death, the politician and militant of South Africa, who died in 5 December, 2013.
Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, who was born in 18 July, 1918, Mvezo, South Africa.
In 1944, Mandela joined the African National Congress (ANC), becoming a leader of its Youth League. In the same year, he met and married Walter Sisulu’s cousin, Evelyn Ntoko Mase, who worked as a nurse.
Mandela subsequently held other ANC leadership positions, through which he helped to revive the organization, opposing the apartheid policies of the ruling National Party.
In 1952 he was chosen as the National Volunteer-in-Chief of the Defiance Campaign along with Maulvi Cachalia as his deputy.
He was arrested in a countrywide police swoop on 5 December 1956, that led to the 1956 Treason Trial.
Following the massacre of unarmed Black South Africans by police forces at Sharpeville in 1960 and the subsequent banning of the ANC, he has abandoned his nonviolent stance and begun advocating acts of sabotage against the South African regime.
The African Politian has fought racism, spending more than a quarter of a century in prison, as he was keen on overcoming the implacable hatreds, for the sake of national interest.
“I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination,” the African Politian stated“ I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.
“It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. ”
The African Politian became more like a global militant icon, wining worldwide support.
Helmy Shaarawy, a researcher and an expert in African affairs, stated that the African Politian followed Gandhi’s steps concerning peaceful resistance.
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