DEVELOPMENT IN MIDDLE EAST
DEMOCRATIC REFORMS IN MIDDLE EAST
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Question
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Nelson Mandela
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Nelson Apartheid
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Thabo Mbeki
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1990, in response to international pressure and the threat of civil war, South Africa’s new president, F.W. de Klerk, pledged to end apartheid and released Mandela from prison. Nelson Mandela and wife, Winnie, raise their fists upon his release from Victor Verster prison in South Africa.
Detailed explanation-2: -Nelson Mandela was a social rights activist, politician and philanthropist who became South Africa’s first Black president from 1994 to 1999. For 20 years, he directed a campaign of peaceful, nonviolent defiance against the South African government and its racist policies.
Detailed explanation-3: -On February 11, 1990, the South African government under President de Klerk released Mandela from prison.
Detailed explanation-4: -Nelson Mandela was a civil rights leader in South Africa. He fought against apartheid, a system where non-white citizens were segregated from whites and did not have equal rights. He served a good portion of his life in prison for his protests, but became a symbol for his people.