MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM

What do you know about Mandela?

Nelson Mandela is a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and politician. Nelson is a greatman, hard working person, brave, and never give up for his mission to the public freedom. He have a long hassle to fight the apartheid system in his country. Which chronicles his early life in a village, coming of age, education and 28 years in prison before becoming President and working to rebuild the country’s once segregated society.

Nelson was born at January 18th 1918, he is from Thembu tribe in South Africa village. At the first he studied in a local misionaris formal schools. Then he left his family and continued studied at Clarkebury Boarding Institude and Healdtown. In 1939 he entered to studied  in Fort Hare University that the only school of white tribe classy.

After that Nelson went to Johannesburg to be a law official and gotten his scholarship in Witwatersrand University. In this town Nelson ever married and lived with Elvelyn and had a son named Madiba Thembekile, but nothing going at long time, they had divorce. The he married again with his beautiful friend named Winnie Madikizela and they gifted two children, named Zenani and Zindzi.

Nelson had engage in discrimation fight moval because the white skin feel that they was an elite trade in this black skin continent and the goverment rate as the place of black skin was different with white skin. The moval mass became big demontration, boycott, work strike, and passpor mass combution. In this case, Nelson Mandela ia the leader of ANC (African National Congress). It is an organization of strike for the freedom of South African.

Because of his act and leading the seace fire, Nelson transferred to the prison until a long time, about 28 years. And he was sending to Robert Island. His second wife, Winnie Madikizela also transferre to the prison because of her contiuning the struggle like his husband. When in the prison Nelson can’t went to Madiba Thembekile funeral, his eldest child was die because of killed by a car crash. He confront of his bitter life in the jail with strong and patient, along with his mission to freedom  his country from the apartheid.

            At the President speech 1990, De Klerk announce the reformation of South Africa and the end of  isolation of activists. Nelson Mandela was free at 11 Februari 1990 in his age 74 yeasr old, after 28 in a prison. He also get a peace nobel from the president. Then in 1994, there is a public selection that fair and honest, Nelson was selected became the next president or the first negroid president in his country. Nelson Mandela is an President who building reconcilement and justice that was very loved by his citizen.