Nelson Mandela: Breaking News

    Do you know Nelson Mandela? Many people  say ”Yes.” He is a politician of the Republic of South Africa.　 He became the first black president of the country in 1994. He was the president for 5 years from 1994 to 1999. While he was politician, he did a lot of great things. For example, he abolished the apartheid in 1991. The apartheid is a segregation by race, in other words, racial discrimination. Between 1948 and 1994, there was this policy in the Republic of South Africa. Apatheid said that Black cannot do anything White do. Naturally, the life of black became poor. The United Nations criticized the Republic of South Africa every year from 1952. In spite of this criticism, the apartheid was not abolished until 1991. I think that this is crazy. Nelson Mandela's activities were evaluated, he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.  In 1994, he became the president. Then he pushed forward a race settlement and cooperation and carried out revival development program (RDP) as an economic policy. In 1999, he retired from the politician. 
 (Wikipedia)

     There is news of death. Nelson Mandela died on December 5, 2013. This was a sudden unexpected event. A memorial service of Nelson Mandela was held in the stadium of the Johannesburg suburbs on December 10. Many well-known people gathered from the world. Of course, the bereaved and friend of Mandela, Diet member and domestic citizen gathered too. I want to introduce some speeches in the memorial service. Secretary‐General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon said "he was 'a giant for justice and a down-to-earth human inspiration'. Many around the world were greatly influenced by his selfless struggle for human dignity, equality and freedom. He touched our lives in deeply personal ways."  Barack Obama, president of the United States of America, said "It is hard to eulogise any man... how much harder to do so for a giant of history, who moved a nation towards justice. We will never see the likes of Nelson Mandela again. While I will always fall short of Madiba, he makes me want to be a better man."  Tens of thousands of people participated in a memorial service. British Prime Minister Cameron or American Former President Clinton attended, too. Crown Prince and Former Prime Minister Fukuda attended from Japan. In the memorial service, people were very lively. Her body was laid away in his hometown.

He died, but I think that Nelson mandela's mind is immortal forever.

(Yahoo! News, Wikipedia)