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Nelson Mandela is in news again; this time for entirely wrong reasons. The shining star of our times belongs to the galaxy of historys great people. He is struggling to survive in a hospital but looking at his age, he will one day meet the fate all great people meet, but death will not rob him of the aura and the greatness which make him an undisputed legend of 20th and 21st centuries. He fought a battle against the crudest of the injustices called apartheid. He personally suffered all the naked cruelties of inequalities and injustice but when his time came, he embraced his tormentors. What a great man this world is going to be deprived of.
According to Los Angeles Times, Meer's biography of Mandela delivers the story of a man whose every waking moment has been devoted to African liberation. Meer traces that struggle from 1941 when Mandela, then 23, arrived in Johannesburg to study law and immersed himself in the city's progressive community of intellectuals and activists. "We were critical of the ANC," he writes of the organization founded in 1912. "We felt it was out of touch with the masses." Therefore, he and several friends established the African Youth Congress, their own militant wing of the ANC, which by 1949 was able to take control of the parent organization and move it from an ineffective "constitutional struggle" against government oppression to Gandhi-style non-violent, passive resistance in the successful 1952 Defiance of Unjust Laws campaign.
Under Mandela's leadership, the ANC grew "from a few thousand to an estimated 100,000" by 1951. But two years later, the racist government responded with the Group Areas Act (reserving practically all urban and developed land for whites), the Bantu Education Act (aimed at giving African children an inferior education) and the Bantu Authorities Act (to control the movement of Africans); extended the pass system to include women, and passed legislation outlawing passive resistance. In 1954, the government banned Mandela from all ANC gatherings for five years.
Mandela has given hope to the oppressed humanity and demonstrated, through personal example, the virtues of tolerance and forgiveness; the two attributes of worlds great leaders. In his life, he was a world leader and in his death, his personal virtues and leadership qualities will guide the humanity for all times to come. For details, please click the following link:
The Passive Voices: Nelson Mandela; a shining star of the galaxy of historys great people .
According to Los Angeles Times, Meer's biography of Mandela delivers the story of a man whose every waking moment has been devoted to African liberation. Meer traces that struggle from 1941 when Mandela, then 23, arrived in Johannesburg to study law and immersed himself in the city's progressive community of intellectuals and activists. "We were critical of the ANC," he writes of the organization founded in 1912. "We felt it was out of touch with the masses." Therefore, he and several friends established the African Youth Congress, their own militant wing of the ANC, which by 1949 was able to take control of the parent organization and move it from an ineffective "constitutional struggle" against government oppression to Gandhi-style non-violent, passive resistance in the successful 1952 Defiance of Unjust Laws campaign.
Under Mandela's leadership, the ANC grew "from a few thousand to an estimated 100,000" by 1951. But two years later, the racist government responded with the Group Areas Act (reserving practically all urban and developed land for whites), the Bantu Education Act (aimed at giving African children an inferior education) and the Bantu Authorities Act (to control the movement of Africans); extended the pass system to include women, and passed legislation outlawing passive resistance. In 1954, the government banned Mandela from all ANC gatherings for five years.
Mandela has given hope to the oppressed humanity and demonstrated, through personal example, the virtues of tolerance and forgiveness; the two attributes of worlds great leaders. In his life, he was a world leader and in his death, his personal virtues and leadership qualities will guide the humanity for all times to come. For details, please click the following link:
The Passive Voices: Nelson Mandela; a shining star of the galaxy of historys great people .
