Nelson Mandela Hero Story

Nelson Mandela For my hero I picked Nelson Mandela, he was a brave hero that would never give up on what he wanted to change, he was modest, brave, trustworthy, and inspiring for what he did for South Africa. South Africa is a country that has around 50,000,000 people living at that time, around 80% of that were black people, the black people didn’t have as many rights, as white people in South Africa. But one hero wanted to change that and his name was Nelson Mandela. Nelson Mandela was born on the 18th of July 1918 and died December 5th 2013. But in those 95 years he changed South Africa for ever. It first started when only white people could play rugby, if there was no more room on a bus a black person had to get off for a white. So then Nelson Mandela protested the government for black people to have as much rights as white people, he got denied and got in jail for 27 years. In the hard 27 years you had to break rocks, you practically have no bed, and the best food you could get was bread. When they let black people finally voted, all the blacks voted for Nelson Mandela, so Nelson Mandela became the first black president of South Africa, he then inspired others with his words, he was the first black president for 6 years between 1991 and 1997. He let black people play in the rugby world cup, that year they won. He then visited the jail that he stayed in for 27 years. But when he meet all the guards, he didn’t torture, kill, or poison any of the guards, he just forgive which surprised everyone. That takes real courage and self-discipline of what he did.