’Brothers and sisters, this is the time to build our nation!’
- Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela, Invictus
In 1875 William Ernest Henley wrote a poem. He was not aware off that this was going to be a poem known across the entire world. He wrote it as he was lying in a bed at the hospital. He suffered from rare tuberculosis of the bone and when it had progressed to his feet at the age of 25, his leg below the knee had to be amputated. His poem has been inspiration for many over the times, including the movie, named Invictus as well.
The movie addresses issues like the end of apartheid, Nelson Mandela’s time as president and what he obtained for South Africa. Apartheid is the African word for segregation – two race groups divided. Medical houses, movie theatres, beaches etc. were reserved for the white race group and the ‘black’ ones had others, for themselves. The Nationalist Party and the Afrikaans Party introduced the first laws of apartheid. Marriages between the two races were the first law to be introduced. Daniel Francois Malan intended a lot of other absurd laws against the black people, the natives. African National Congress, ANC, were the first resistant of the laws. At the end of 1988 the whole world started to condemn the apartheid regime. In 1990 F.W. de Klerk took over the presidency from the corrupt P.W. Botha and on the 11th of February Nelson Mandela was released from the prison on Robben Island. He had been in prison for 27 years at that time. Robben Island has held other famous prisoners such as Jacob Zuma, current president of South Africa and Amos Masondo, current mayor of Johannesburg. After being prisoner for such a long time Nelson Mandela received The Nobel Peace Prize along with F.W. de Klerk. In 1994 he became president of South Africa.
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