DAY 2: TAKING ACTION
Activity 1: A LONG WALK TO FREEDOM
Nelson Mandela was an activist and civil rights leader who was born and raised in South Africa. For over 40 years (1948-1991), the country of South Africa had a political system called 'apartheid'. This meant that there were different rules for people who had white skin than for those who didn't. Nelson Mandela felt that this was very wrong and he fought for many years to change the law. Eventually, he became the President of South Africa and ended apartheid, but not before spending 27 years in prison.
In Robben Island Prison (where Mandela spent 18 years), life w very tough. Mandela had a very tiny, damp, concrete cell, with only a straw mat to sleep on. During the day he was forced to work in a quarry, breaking rocks into gravel. He was only allowed to see one visitor and receive one letter every six months. At night, Nelson read and studied to be a lawyer.
For this activity, we had to imagine that we were Mr Mandela and that we were living in Robben Island Prison. We have been given a journal and each night we had to write in it.
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