III.

Moral Theory of Nelson Mandela

For Nelson Mandela he believes that there should be equality in races. For Nelson
Mandela, he believes that it is wrong that one race is happily obtaining their rights while the
other is suffering from whatever was left for them. He started actively participating in politics
after the 1948 election when the winning party, National Party, supported the apartheid policy of
racial segregation. He was against this system since because the rights of the majority non-white
inhabitants of South Africa were curtailed and minority rule by white people was maintained.
Racial segregation is the separation of humans into racial groups in daily life. It may apply to
activities such as eating in restaurants, drinking from water fountains, using bathroom, attending
schools, going movies, or in the rental or purchase of a home. Due to his fight against the
apartheid system, he was charged with life imprisonment because of sabotage and crimes which
were equivalent to treason and he was then accused by the defendants of plotting a foreign
invasion of South Africa. After 27 years of being imprisoned, State President F.W. de Klerk
announced that Mandela will be released in prison.

Whatever rights one person is obtaining it should be obtained by everyone. We should

not set rights exclusive for one race. We should not make people indifferent from us just because
they have a different color. And this is what Nelson Mandela fought for, thus after he was
released in prison he led the multi-party negotiations that led to country’s first multi-racial
elections.