Nelson Mandela Ideology

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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist who served as president of South Africa from 1994-1999. He was the first black chief executive and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. Politically an African nationalist and democratic socialist, he served as president of the African National Congress (ANC) party and also he served as internationally secretary general of the non-aligned movement. Before being in this position Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years by the South African apartheid government due to standing up against a government that was committing egregious human rights abuses against black South Africans. So, in this assignment I am going to focus on two ideologies or ideas of Nelson Mandela. As per my concept ideology means a system of ideas, especially one that forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy. Therefore, Mandela political ideas basically talks about ‘democratic socialist’ and ‘freedom’ to pursuing equality and promoting rights and also political development, in particular his hope to achieve change not through violence but through legal revolution.
As per his concept democratic socialism is distinguished from both the soviet model of centralized socialism and from social democracy. It is a political ideology advocating a democratic political system alongside a socialist economic system, involving a combination of political democracy with

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