The Legacy of Nelson Mandela

NELSON MANDELA was the glowing beacon of hope, shining across South Africa and the world, whose 27 years in jail left him without a trace of bitterness or hatred against those who practiced the evil of apartheid.

From his prison cell, the man who was to become president of his beloved South Africa, did more than any person alive to end this scourge and to bring about black majority rule in his country.

It was Mandela, even through his long and lonely incarceration, whose sheer, unwavering resolve to end the iniquities in South Africa assuaged the despair of millions of blacks who existed under the tyranny of apartheid.