Nelson Mandela and Apartheid

Apartheid is racial segregation policy of the government of South Africa from 1948 to 1994. Under the apartheid system, nonwhites-classified as Bantu (black), colored (mixed), or Indian-did not share full rights of citizenship with the white minority. Nelson mandela is such a hero because he try to stop apartheid from happening in africa. He was admired by the authors of the articles and sites because he used ghandi's non violence protesting way. he was imprisoned for 27 years and his people still fighting the government he was freed in 1990 which meant the end of the corrupt government of apartheid.