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Freedom shouts fighters, raises arms and breaks the dawn. Before you know it, this year is the 10th anniversary of the death of Nelson Mandela, the "Father of the Nation of South Africa".Mandela's contribution to South Africa's cause of peace is still remembered and he is called "South Africa's greatest man".
Nelson Mandela was also awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his great contributions.However, there are also many different voices, South Africa, which was originally called a developed country, has stagnated under Mandela and has lost its former glory, so it is called "the sinner of South Africa".
Is it because of Mandela that South Africa's economy has plummeted?Is it appropriate to use the term "great man of history" or "South African" sinner to describe Mandela?
South Africa is located in the southernmost part of Africa, surrounded by the sea on three sides, has a superior geographical location, and can be regarded as the big brother of the whole of Africa economically, which is closely related to its history of colonization.
In South Africa, except for the black people, the yellow people are the natives, who run agricultural production and live a self-sufficient life, but they did not expect that one day the colonists would land on the territory and beat them off guard.
However, this has to start from the era of "Columbus discovered the New World", since the discovery of the earth is a sphere, there are still so many fields in the world to be explored, led by the Netherlands in order to obtain more land, colonized all over the country, South Africa naturally did not escape the clutches of the Netherlands.
The shameless Netherlands took a fancy to the excellent geographical location of South Africa and directly opened the company here. At that time, the commodity economy was in full swing, and European countries were selling goods like "crazy" in order to gain vested interests.
So the first white people poured into this part of South Africa, in addition to the Dutch, there are some white people from other countries who came to settle here for business or other reasons, so in South Africa now, you can see a situation where multiple races live together.
Then Britain took the lead in the Industrial Revolution, and the steam age resounded throughout the British Empire, making Britain the most developed capitalist country in the world. But how could they be satisfied with their small territory, and as their economic power grew, they became more aggressive than the Dutch in establishing colonies all over the world.
Even China, which is known as the first country, has British colonies, not to mention South Africa. Britain, which once had the largest number of colonies in the world, was also known as the "empire on which the sun never sets", so the British quickly occupied two colonies in South Africa.
At that time, South Africa was divided into four parts, two of which were British colonies, and the remaining two parts were founded by the Boers.
The humiliating colonial practices were too much for the native Boers to endure, and they twice waged war against the British colonizers in an attempt to drive them out on their own, but unfortunately failed. After the defeat, the country was annexed and directly became the territory of the British.
Although the Boer War should have been won, it had lost a lot of material and financial resources and lost its vitality. Why did Britain have so many colonies and never forget South Africa?
It's not that South Africa looks poor and backward, in fact, diamonds, ** rank among the top few in the world, and if they are mined, a lot of money can flow into their own pockets, so why not?
Under British colonial rule, South Africa used the British development model to develop its economy according to its own characteristics. At the same time as the rapid economic development, South Africa set its sights on the development of industry, and later transformed into an industrial power.
At the same time, South Africa, which is rich in resources, is the sweet and sweet spot in the eyes of European and American countries, and the factory is built here while using very low ** acquisition resources, although it drives the economic development of South Africa, but it has also caused irreversible environmental damage to this place.
Since then, South Africa has become one of the most powerful countries in Africa, even comparable to some developed countries, and it is the most glorious time of South Africa.
Until 1961, the whole world was breaking away from colonial rule and regaining the right to rule the country, and South Africa was no exception. After that, the British colonizers officially withdrew from South Africa, and South Africa became dominated by the Boers.
Under Boer rule, South Africa remained wealthy. But don't look at the wealth of South Africa at that time, in fact, all this wealth flowed into the pockets of whites, the wealth of the country was only owned by a small number of whites, many South African people are still living in misery, and the slums in South Africa are simply countless.
In particular, black people, who were once used as goods in the "triangle" and were sold as slaves in other countries, belonged to the lowest class in South Africa, and were not only very poor, but also oppressed, which was really miserable.
Moreover, the scope of black people's activities in the country is very small, only about 12%, and the rest of the territory belongs to whites, and once blacks set foot on white territory in violation of the law, they need to suffer severe punishment.
For a long time, South Africa lived a very different life of heaven and hell, and there was a man who, after seeing the misery of black life, was determined to change the status quo, and he was known to the public as Nelson Mandela.
Mandela was born on July 18, 1918, in Trankite, South Africa, and his status was unusual, as he was named heir to the throne from birth. Born with a golden spoon in his mouth, he can be said to be an out-and-out nobleman.
Mandela was both lucky and unlucky. Mandela's father was only 9 years old when he died of tuberculosis at a young age. In order to better protect the growth of Mandela, the heir to the throne, he was fostered in the hands of the regent.
In order to better manage the dynasty in the future, Mandela went to the academy to study from an early age, and he also became the first person in the clan to receive an education. And Mandela lived up to expectations and was admitted to Fort Hall University with his own efforts.
However, he was supposed to study hard in college, but because he was dissatisfied with the unreasonable system of the school, he used more tough means to resist, but he was directly expelled from the school. With nowhere to go, he had to get a correspondence degree in law from the University of London.
On the side of the clansmen, he found a wife who could help him in the future, but he did not obey the arrangement of fate, and was forced to run away from marriage in desperation, choosing to create his own career in secret.
So he took advantage of the situation to come to a mine to work, running around for work like an ordinary person. However, he was soon fired, as his boss inadvertently discovered his true identity. In order not to offend the nobles, the boss hurriedly offered Mandela.
However, Mandela did not go back, but looked for another job. Finally, I found a clerical job in a law firm, and then I worked there steadily.
In the process of his work, Mandela really reached out to the people. Every day, he could see black people of the same skin color as himself being bullied, oppressed, and living a life that was simply "not human", and his heart would be very painful.
So Mandela came up with the idea of wanting to help them, but the only way to solve the current situation is to defeat them and establish a political regime through war, so that he can have a voice in this place. Because he had also thought of resolving the matter through peaceful means, he had not been properly dealt with at all.
By chance, Mandela succeeded in joining the Congress Party, an organization that advocates non-violence。From that moment on, Mandela threw himself into the revolution, lobbied for harmony between blacks and whites.
In the course of the Mandela Revolution, not only did not exchange the pity of the white leaders for the blacks, but instead intensified the torture of the blacks. So the inhumane policy was proposed, requiring more than 10 million blacks to only operate on 12% of the land, which is simply madness!
How can you not be resentful!Because the power is too weak, the black man can only bury his resentment in the bottom of his heart, longing for the day when he can be respected, and it is worth mentioning that in the end, Mandela did it.
Mandela, too, was ruthlessly imprisoned as a reactionary for leading the revolution, but was acquitted because of his eloquence.
When Mandela was released, he realized that only a major revolution could change the status quo, so he began to prepare for it from then on, and the workers' strike movement he led grew stronger and stronger day by day.
The blacks, who had endured the pain of oppression, responded to the call, and a large military organization was formed, and everyone believed in Mandela, so Mandela made himself "commander-in-chief".
Just do it!When everything was ready, Mandela led the armed forces in an attack on what was then South African rule. However, with the help of various foreign forces, Mandela finally failed, and was directly arrested and imprisoned in 1962.
Mandela was imprisoned after his arrest, with no one to talk to, no books to read, and it was painful for Mandela, and that was what the people who held him up wanted.
In 1964, Mandela was sentenced to life in prison for "various crimes."It was then transferred to Robben Island. Robben Island, on the other hand, was a secret place where many black prisoners were secretly held, and where they were treated inhumanely but not known to the world.
It took 27 years for Mandela to be released from prison and free. And after he was released, he issued an impassioned speech, which made countless people pity his plight and admire his spirit, after all, it is very rare to be able to stay in prison for 27 years and still have a good spirit.
Therefore, after Mandela was released, he became a big hero in the eyes of the South African people, and there was hardly anyone who did not worship him.
But this can't help but make people wonder why they said that Mandela would be imprisoned for life, and how they could release him directly. However, behind this, there are reasons that are extremely scary.
Under the rule of the Boers** at that time, the whole of South Africa was plunged into a state of gloom. The contradictions between blacks and whites have reached the point of irreconcilability, and contradictions and conflicts occur almost every day.
In order to solve the contradictions between them, even the United Nations came out to condemn South Africa.
In the face of this situation, the South African Boers were afraid, and in such a precarious situation, it would be easy to overthrow the rule. At that time, the demand for Mandela's release had become the demand of the majority of the South African people, and under various pressures and considerations, Mandela was released.
Not only that, but after Mandela is released, he will also make Mandela the ** of South Africa. As long as Mandela appears, he can not only ease the contradictions between blacks and whites, but also unknowingly touch some people's cakesIt's wonderful.
So in 1994, Mandela stepped onto the stage of the first election, and with unanimous support, Mandela successfully became the first of South Africa, and in the next time, he led the people to develop and grow on his behalf.
As soon as Mandela took office, he instituted many policies on development, but almost all of them were used to develop blacks. After all, blacks have always been bullied and oppressed, and it is only natural that they should be the first to develop.
As a result, some blacks who did not have jobs actually entered some important fields of work, doing jobs that they had not done before, in the name of helping blacks.
However, as everyone knows, it has caused great harm to the development of this country, and the entry of blacks not only did not help economic growth, but because of lack of ability, it dragged its feet.
There are many measures such as these, but they do not fundamentally solve the problem of black people, but are not conducive to the development of the country. Moreover, after Mandela took office, he took the initiative to give up nuclear **, which is really puzzling. Although it is said that it is for the sake of peace and voluntarily abandoned, it is better to cater to Europe and the United States and reassure them.
Although Mandela has truly made contributions because of his love for peace since taking office, he has won more than 100 peace awards, including the famous "Nobel Peace Prize".
But it can also be seen that Mandela did not have political leadership, did not do much to benefit the whole of South Africa, and did not dare to make drastic changes in development.
He just took over South Africa at that time, and did not do what was directly caused, but only the result of the smooth development of things, so Mandela was not a sinner in South Africa.
Mandela's ideas and his contribution to black equality were enormous, but at the same time Mandela did set South Africa back so much that it is no longer able to regain its former glory.
The reason why human beings are human beings shows that there must be disadvantages that human beings will have, and if we only judge the good or bad of this person from a single perspective, then this kind of evaluation must be one-sided and unfair.
Mandela was such a man, he was a great man and a sinner, a saint of black equality, but he was the devil of South Africa.
What will happen to South Africa in the future depends on its creation!History is in the past, and every moment of the present is important.
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