Nelson Mandela and Apartheid

In my own words, apartheid is a policy in which black people and colored people are seperated from non colored people. That meant that they were segregated, and there couldn't be inter racial marriages. Nelson Mandela is a very important man of Africa. Why? Its becasue he helped to get rid of apartheid in South Africa. He did this by using civil disobedience, boycotts, strikes, and demonstrations. Why did Mandela do this? This is because he was in jail for 27 years, and during those years he wished there would be a time South Africa lived happily. When he got out of jail he started to get to work and he became leader of ANC.