Essay on Nelson

I want to share his wards about his name
No one in my family had ever attended school. On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name was Nelson. Why this particular name I have no idea."
— Mandela, 1994.[
IN 1950, Mandela was elected national president of the ANCYL; at the ANC national conference of December 1951, he continued arguing against a racially-united front. In 1952, the ANC began preparation for a joint Defiance Campaign against apartheid with Indian and communist groups, founding a National Voluntary Board to recruit volunteers. He did a lot of struggle for Africans in order to provide them the equal rights and freedom. He spent all of his life in continuous struggle for fighting and providing justice for black Africans. He was against the racism and did a lot of things to finish this bad practice from the South Africa. He remained successful in his struggle when the white people of African government accept all his terms and conditions and gave him the freedom from prison in 1990.He became the president of South Africa and refused to accept the same position for the second time. I want to mention here his famous quotation about racism.
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” Nelson Mandela life in imprisonment
On August 5 1962 nelson Mandela was captured by the police because of leaving the country without permission and supporting the workers strike. He shifted to Pretoria where he started his correspondence study for bachelor of law degree from the University of London. In Pretoria his trial was began and the prosecutor blamed him for the charge of counts of sabotage and conspiracy to violently overthrow the government. Mandela and the accused admitted sabotage but denied that they had ever agreed to initiate guerilla war against the government.

Mandela and his accused were transferred from Pretoria to the prison on Robben island for next eighteen years. He was kept separate from the non-political prisoner in the section B and his cell was 8 feet by 7 feet with a straw mat to sleep on. Here I want to quote his famous quotation about brave people.
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
Life in prison was very hard and he was not allowed to read the newspaper for preparing his law degree. No mail was allowed in the jail and only one mail per six months was allowed for him. All of his mails were heavily censored. Attending Christian Sunday services, Mandela studied Islam and Afrikaans, hoping to build a mutual respect with the warders and convert them to his cause. From 1967, prison conditions improved, with black prisoners given trousers rather than shorts, games being permitted, and food quality increasing.In 1975, Mandela had become a Class A prisoner, allowing greater numbers of visits and letters; he corresponded with anti-apartheid activists like Mangosuthu Buthelezi and Desmond Tutu. That year, he began his autobiography, which was smuggled to London, but remained unpublished at the time; prison authorities discovered several pages, and his study privileges were stopped for four years.