Before long walk to freedom - a young Mandela Classes

Nelson Mandela, South Africa as a young man, I have to ask myself quite a bit odd? Great for political reform among many other accolades - the I-democratic South Africa, 27 years, killed and imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner was the first black president, was taught.

Often, this knowledge impressed the crowd waving a colorful T-shirt with the image of the gray-haired man was accompanied; A withered man staring out of his prison cell on Robin Island; With fists raised in a boxing dress or a young gentleman.

But the 19-year-old democracy that brought Nelson Mandela, apartheid and oppression associated with new challenges never experienced a 21-year-old student?

"Born frees lessons for

Former achiever and contrasting image of a young warrior, applying the valuable lessons of my generation, gray hairs before revealing the identity of a young Nelson Mandela was through intelligence.

Mandela's parents were both illiterate and that he would be moving to the next generation of urban gardeners, and the miners were part of the village cattle grazing, but rather to be a lawyer and begin to work towards this limit.

His first job while studying for his BA degree, a post-apartheid South Africa before becoming the first black president, it was a night watchman. The pursuit of higher education - - Eastern Cape Thimbu royal tribe as a member of a class of his decision, although it was admirable to humble himself to get down to business.

And then, much to his education, get a business loan to finance his law degree. The government of this fact when it comes to the pursuit of an education and the right to challenge the culture of dependency post-apartheid has a sense of self-initiative, and vice versa.

These people are not waiting for the government to insist that everything is sad. Mandela's spirit of initiative, self-study course, thicker taking hold among young people to improve their lives and deaths has resulted in a lack of initiative among the people.

Nelson Mandela is a generation of political freedom, democratic, and how much can be achieved by education for the education of black people to the oppressive apartheid government, though nothing close to be able to continue to educate themselves?

Only today, the way education was not easy. Coupled with its growing political activity, three times in his last year of law at the University of Witwatersrand Mandela could not really.

Even the heroes are flawed

the two-sided sign.

First, even the heroes are flawed. Little real perfect man to watch model and the failure of the first attempt to successfully stop several times, one learns more clearly. Mandela still graduated as a lawyer and in the end I just tolerance, freedom of education that has been rooted out, you can imagine - once open and free his mind, it was a logical next step for freedom of its people.

In fact, it's not even just for me to know that you can be a comfort as a second-year law student, and during the formation of the exam questions that teachers have always been very creative; higher education is certainly not for the faint-hearted.

Secondly, even small and medium-sized cubicle wall facing depressed wages, on average, did not settle into the comfort of a lawyer after graduating from Mandela. Only with a law degree, she released the entire nation - a nation when it is designed to position graduates of servitude.

For him, learning that he had to play a fundamental role in politics and pave the way for the liberation of South Africa and the current generation stepping stone symbol and the most basic freedoms, I believe that there are opportunities for the medium.

Higher education is a route to one lane for a particular profession; It is a platform for learning and self-expansion unit to be active outside the borders of the title. We graduate a job, or a job creator economic climate of high unemployment in South Africa to be given the freedom to choose the way of democracy.

As the president of the African National Congress Youth League, headed by one of his early political career to adapt to the changing needs of the people - the people of South Africa as the biggest political change - it is interesting to see Mandela versatility.

He is the face of a single race against the democratic primary and Africans believed was the cause of their struggle for an independent release. But he changed his perspective on outvoted.

Changing views of the front unit of South Africa's first democratic president, he effortlessly when he stopped his values ​​laid the foundation for peace and reconciliation among all the races.

Mandela's interests in joint effort to facilitate freedom were not afraid to change his prospects. Under the transition from dictatorship to democracy in the post-independence African leaders, like many other African countries, the country was on the verge of civil war was a delicate procedure.

Mandela, South Africa's democratic values ​​of forgiveness and unity of purpose to build a 11-unit, we were able to bring together different cultures.

This is a work-in-progress in a historic figure "growing up under apartheid to democracy that is far removed from the concept seems to Nelson Mandela and the Nelson Mandela to relate to young people, instead of a hard poverty, unemployment, and more specifically the" new-age, young people are still struggling and apply the appropriate access to education.

And pray for the recovery of the world Nelson Mandela celebrated his 95th birthday, the young Nelson was - we need to constantly remind ourselves - was the catalyst for changes in their own time.

I give thanks to those who live with the freedoms guaranteed to us, purposeful and fulfilling life even more grateful I am for the lessons you can learn from Nelson Mandela.

* Allan Gray Fellowship of Rental Kittson, an initiative aimed at developing future leaders of South Africa, a law student at the University of Pretoria and the owner.

Comment

He, in particular in Africa, the leaders of the so-called martyrs, but sets it apart from other lifestyle and mindset is a hero - it's like looking for a needle in a haystack post-independence / colonial / apartheid-era seems to find a hero.

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