Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela

As a young student Nelson Mandela got to the ANC. He was unhappy with the depression of the black majority and wanted to get the same political and social rights. Two years later, in 1944, he and some friends formed the ANC Youth League, because they thought the ANC was too less effective. After the won election of the national party in 1948, and the beginning of the apartheid, Mandela became chairman of the ANC in Transval and three years later he became president of the ANC Youth League. He opened a law firm with Oliver Tambo and was involved in “The Congress of the People” in 1955, which was the base of the adprion of the freedom charta. He was also involved in the Mandela plan, which was a resistance concept for anti-apartheid. After the Scharpville-Massacre in 1960, the ANC and Mandela decided, that it was time for armed resistance. He became leader of the armed department and there on he left South Africa and travelled illegally in other African countries. In 1962 he was captured and sent to prison for five years, because of his illegal travels and the calls to strike. And on the 12 June of 1964 he got livelong prison, because of planning armed fights and sabotage.

The major part of his punishment, Mandela spent on Robben Island, a little island in the Atlantic Ocean in front of Kapstadt. On the 11 February 1990 Mandela was freed on the command of president Frederick de Klerk, who cancelled the ban of the ANC at the same time. Mandela and de Klerk got the Nobel Peace Price in 1993 and in 1994 the ANC won the first democratic elections, like in the following years.  From 1991 to 1997 Nelson Mandela was president and tried to lead the society away from Apartheid and the ruling of a few. He got international respect for national and international conciliations. 

Internet Research: Repressiv Political Systems

Repressive Political Systems

Communism: The basic idea is very good, everyone has the same chances, the same money and the same rights. But in the implementation it depresses creativity and individualism. The people aren’t discriminated if they are not wealthy and have less good clothes, a littler house or so on, but the people want to be different and not being the same all the time. And so there are others, who want to lead the population and take the advantages as politicians.

So at the end, there are a few rich ones and the poor majority.

Nazism: it is a radically anti-semitic, racist, anti-communist and anti-democratic ideology and political movement. It caused millions of dead since the beginning of the Second World War and the Holocaust. But it is current these days as the banned Neo-Nazism. It was formed in the poor times after the First World War and became famous very fast. It says, that there is only one people, which is allowed  to live in Germany and that the others are less worth.

At the same time the leader, Adolf Hitler, wanted to expand the third german kingdom all over the world.

Fascism: It was in the first half of the 20^th century a form of government in many European countries. It was reigned as a dictatorship and against democracy. Only one party was allowed and people, who didn’t supported them were imprisoned and murdered. There was whether  freedom press nor a free press. Italian, Spain and too Hungary, Austria and Croatia are known to had a fascistic government. The Nazism is a especially brutal form of Fascism, where people were killed systematically.