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ECHOES OF CONSCIENCE, PART II MANDELA AND LEGACY
October 22, 2025
|Daily Mirror - Sri Lanka
In tracing the moral lineage of nonviolent resistance, one finds a remarkable thread that winds its way from the railways of Pietermaritzburg to the streets of Montgomery, and finally, to the prisons of Robben Island.
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It is a thread spun from courage, conscience, and an unyielding faith in human dignity. If Gandhi taught the world the moral power of truth, and Martin Luther King Jr. translated it into the language of modern democracy, then Nelson Mandela embodied its endurance: the ability of conscience not only to resist injustice but to reconcile with it.
Mandela's South Africa was, in many ways, the crucible in which the ideals of Gandhi and King were tested under the harshest conditions imaginable.
Apartheid was not merely a policy. It was a complete architecture of separation, designed to dehumanize and divide.
Instituted formally in 1948, apartheid sought to ensure white dominance in every sphere of life, from political, to economic, and to social. It classified South Africans into rigid racial categories: white, black, coloured, and Asian, each assigned to their own schools, hospitals, residential zones, and even park benches.
Land was unevenly divided - 87 percent reserved for whites, and the remainder for millions of blacks who were herded into impoverished "homelands." Black South Africans were denied the right to vote, to work freely to study in decent schools, or even to walk in certain streets without carrying a passbook. It was a system that sought to extinguish equality at its root, by controlling not just movement but the very imagination of freedom.
It was in this world that Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela came of age. Born in 1918 in the rural village of Mvezo in Umtata, he was raised in the traditions of the Thembu people but educated in the ways of the coloniser. At Fort Hare University and later in Johannesburg, Mandela came face to face with the contradictions of a society that preached civilization yet practiced cruelty. It was there that his political awakening began.
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