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A 3 page overview of Nelson Mandela’s insights into the South African apartheid movement. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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into the issues surrounding apartheid in South Africa. Written in secret during his twenty-seven years of incarceration, the book delineates Mandelas arguments justifying several important turning points in the
history of the African National Congress. Mandelas decision to form Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) and begin armed struggle in 1961 was one of the more critical of these points.
So too was his decision to begin negotiating with the apartheid government in the late 1980s. Interestingly, Mandela first advocated nonviolence as
a means of affecting change in regard to the atrocities of apartheid. In 1963, two years after the publication of "I Am Prepared to Die", however, Mandela had backed
off his original premise of nonviolence and was in fact arrested and tried on charges of over 200 counts of sabotage and suspected preparations for an armed invasion of South
Africa. Mandela received a life sentence. In his four hour speech to the court Mandela proclaimed that he had fought against white domination and black domination alike, cherishing
the idea of a state of democracy and freedom to the point that he was willing to die for the attainment of that dream.
Mandela was indeed prepared to die and had come to the realization that violence was sometimes necessary to effect change. His movement continued while he was in jail
and it perpetuated his new regard for the utility of violence! The 1950s had seen much civil unrest among the indigenous inhabitants of the region. Where the settler
colonies had previously addressed such unrest with a brutality which has been unexceeded in other areas of the world, they began to take a different strategy. Colonial powers pulled
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