Yesterday evening, Nelson Mandela met his untimely death. At about 20:50 South African Standard Time, he succumbed to a lung infection, and died peacefully in his bed, surrounded by his family, at his home in Houghton in Johannesburg. His death was announced the day after, by none other than the current in-office African President Jacob Zuma.
I did not personally know Nelson Mandela, but from what I could gather at various sources, he sounded like a great man. A man of vision and action, who was not afraid of standing up and resisting the Apartheid System. Many would call him a terrorist, for the actions he committed in an attempt to stop the Apartheid System completely, but others would call him a Freedom Fighter, a hero. I agree with the latter, he did what he thought was morally correct; and it all turned out very well in the end.
He studied law at the Fort Hare University and the University of Witwatersrand, he started the Defiance Campaign and fought the unjust system. He was prosecuted, and went through an unsuccessful treason trial, where he was never denounced a traitor to the African nation.
In the beginning of it all, he was committed to non-violent protests, but after he realized it was futile to stay passive, he, in association with the South African Communist Party, co-founded the Umkhonto we Sizwe (translated to “Spear of the Nation”), which lead a sabotage campaign against what was known as the Apartheid Government at the time. He was arrested in 1962, and convicted of being a conspirator, whose goal was to overthrow the government. He was sentenced to lifetime in imprisonment.
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