Intro

South Africa is a recently independent nation located at the southern tip of Africa.  Like many other nations, South Africa was striving to eradicate colonialism in the post-world war two era. In 1994, the newly elected South African president Nelson Mandela sought reconciliation between the black majority and the more powerful white minorities. South Africa’s previous system of rule, apartheid, was the ideology that Mandela hopes to abolish. Avoiding the ideology of imperialism, Mandela uses passive resistance to unite the South

African people. Unfortunately, the tensions between the blacks and the whites have gone out of control. The whites are migrating out of South Africa in fear of Mandela’s rule, with blacks wishing to seek revenge on the whites who lead their race to poverty. These tensions eventually created both national and international crises. Mandela’s non-violent rule dictates the forgiveness of the whites that locked him in prison for 27 years. Since the blacks are his main supporters, Mandela is going against his supporters by forgiving the whites. This causes the very high unemployment rate, and increased crime rate. However, even with these crisis’ Mandela realizes that the abolishment of apartheid will not happen overnight. Since the tensions between the South African people have reached its climax, Mandela turns to the beloved South African sport of rugby to end apartheid, as represented in the film Invictus.

As with any country in the middle of development, issues are bound to arise.  Following the exit of Nelson Mandela from office, the ANC began to become more corrupt within themselves, leading to more issues as they try and progress.  As new political parties such as the "21st-century National Party" crop up, their power may falter, and the development of South Africa as a unified nation will continue as Nelson Mandela intended when he came in to office.