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South African Rule, The Aparthied, And Nelson Mandela

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SOUTH AFRICAN CHANGE IN RULE, THE APARTHIED, AND NELSON MANDELA By the year 1910, Britain had granted South Africa self-rule and they were no longer under British law. This gave South Africa the opportunity to become its own nation developing its own laws and way of ruling. South Africa at the time was mostly African Americans with the small minority of people being white. During this time in the year 1918, a young black boy was born to a tribal leader named Gadla Mandela. This boy was named Rohihlahla Mandela. His first name means “troublemaker”. He would later be named Nelson by a primary school teacher he had. No one could have known what his life would become as the years went on. Young Nelson grew up in the village of Transkei where the people spoke the language called Xhosa. He was always a very intelligent kid with a good sense of self-government because he was being raised by a tribal leader and always around other older confident leader type men and chiefs. Nelson quickly learned to stand up for what he believed in life and fight for what he felt was right. These values were what got him into trouble in later years. He would get into trouble disobeying the laws of even his own tribe by refusing things such as arranged marriage and other traditions of the tribe. Nelsons father died in the year 1930 and another tribe leader raised him. He was well educated and attended the University of South Africa, graduating in the year 1942. He

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