Nelson Mandela - the major turning point in his life.

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In this part of my Coursework I am going to describe the major turning points in Nelson Mandela’s life. I believe that there are three major turning points in his life which I am going to write about in the following articles that you shall read. These are Joining the ANC, His turn to violence and His release from prison.

Nelson Mandela joined a group called the ANC, when he did this I believe it altered his life so I am going to call it a major turning point in his life.

The ANC was an organisation that went against the way of the whites in South Africa. They stood up against the whites so the black people in South Africa could be free. The name ANC was the short hand name of the ‘African National Congress’. Nelson Mandela first attended an ANC meeting 1942. He did this a year before he actually joined the ANC in 1943. Mandela was taken to the ANC meeting by a man who went by the name of Oliver Tambo. The two of them also later set up a law firm in Johannesburg. Mandela thought the ANC’s approach to the white government was not direct enough. He thought that they should be more in their face as the black people in South Africa out numbered the whites five to one! After a while Mandela and Tambo set up the ANCYL, (The African nation Congress Youth League). This branch of the ANC was a more violent and direct part of the ANC. Mandela’s contribution to the ANC was publicity. He made sure that the people of South Africa and the rest of the world knew the ANC and what was going on in South Africa.

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Mandela joining the ANC was a major turning point because if he had not of joined the ANC then he may not have gone to prison. Joining the ANC was his first step towards his time I prison. We do not know if he would have gone to prison if he had not joined the ANC but what we do know is that he did go to prison after he joined the ANC.

Nelson Mandela turned to violence later on in his campaign for free rights for blacks and ...

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