Nelson Mandela and Apartheid

Apartheid is racial segregation from preventing south Africans from voting and shit, since 1948 - 1994. This was only for the nonwhites-classified as Bantu *(Black people) Indians and mixed colors besides the whites, removing their citizenship! This meant black people could not vote in parliamentary elections, and then in 1990 many public and institutions were restricted to the use of one race only. Nelson Mandela a hero because he Fought for Unity and freedom. Nelson Mandela walked out of prison on Feb. 11, 1990 to bring a violent upheavel to S.A. A normal man would have felt right for in calling for a violent upheaval to bring down the white supremacist government. But he felt a good reason to call for a revenge shot. He had spent 27 years in prison, 18 of them on Robben Island, an inhospitable chunk of rock sitting in the cold Atlantic, off the coast of Cape Town.