Apartheid
... One example is South Africa’s protest lead by Nelson Mandela a determined protestor, who since 1944 led an incessant movement against the injustice of the Apartheid law which legalized racial discrimination for long years. A close comparative analysis of Mandela’s protests and Gandhi’s definition of a true civil resister reveals that while Mandela was initially inspired by Gandhi’s ideas of non violent struggle against the Apartheid law, he later used violence and acts of sabotage and evaded police arrests since these were the only practical option left to cope with colonizers’ tyranny and violence. Before analyzing the similarities and differences between Gandhi’s ideals and those applied by Mandela, we need to give some background about the injustice of Apartheid in South Africa. ... The problems between the whites and the Africans grew more intense as the Afrikaners National party, a group of English and Dutch descendents, gained a stronghold on the nation and introduced the Apartheid law in order to insure their social and economical domination. The Apartheid law as described by Jacobsense in the article “South Africa” is considered “one of the most inhuman and unjust regimes in modern history”. ... Mandela followed Gandhi’s ideals at the beginning of his strike against the Apartheid law. ... Determined to use nonviolent means in 1952, Mandela did organize a peaceful ,non violent “Campaign for the Defiance of Unjust Laws” which encouraged the government to produce horrible penalties on any protestor against the Apartheid law (Madiba). ... In 1990, even when Mandela was finally released he refused to give up violence until the Apartheid law disappears completely.