Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...intellect to serving others. His uncompromising and unrelenting insistence on the end of de jure white supremacy, coupled with the political savvy necessary to obtain results, led to one of the most significant political and social events in modern world history: the South African government's gradual abolition of apartheid...
...been sentenced to five years at Robben prison for acting against the injustice of South Africa's apartheid system and would eventually spend 27 years behind bars...
...would say that while Mandela has the strength to birth a nation, he lacks the creativity and flexibility to nurse it as it grows. In South Africa he brought together the white and black communities but has failed to effectively help his nation's economy thrive as a post-apartheid nation...
Many credit his gentle strength with encouraging the reconciliation between the black and white communities that led to the abolition of apartheid...
After running away from an arranged marriage at home and completing his B.A. in 1941 by correspondence through the University of South Africa, Mandela entered the law profession, only to realize that his prospects as a black lawyer were limited under apartheid...