Nelson Mandela
In Te Reo Pakeha we are learning about Tangata Rongonui, to me a Tangata Rongonui is a role model (someone who you look up to), someone who is passionate and also someone who shows perseverance. Nelson Mandela was one of them. He was a man who stopped apartheid, an apartheid is a political social system in south Africa that meant white people were separated from black people it was a racism system created by the whites. Nelson Mandela lived in a village in south Africa with his family, when he was 7 years old his father, Henry Mandela died, Nelson Mandela was sent to wesley mission school to get the best education that black people could get. Nelson Mandela became a lawyer. From there he became very rich. Soon Nelson Mandela became very annoyed about the apartheid and soon went against it Nelson said 'ALL WE WANT IS EQUAL RIGHTS AND PEACE' but the whites did not agree. The blacks got furious. The blacks wanted war 'WAR, WAR, WAR' they chanted. But still Nelson said 'PEACE! ALL I WANT IS PEACE.' 'GIVE ME PEACE!' The black didn't listen they started WAR! soon the streets were the blacks lived were full of anger. The blacks even went against each other. In 1990 Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prisoned he was in prison for 27 years when he got out he had seen how much blacks had achieved while he was in jail although most blacks said 'WAR!' still Nelson said 'PEACE', not long after that Nelson Mandela was made president of South Africa and from that day the Apartheid stopped, blacks had equal rights and their was 'PEACE.' In 2013 Nelson Mandela died many people were at his funeral. And many people also proposed a speech about him that goes '
"An Ordinary Man"
In the end he died an ordinary man
Only rich in wrinkles from where the spirit had been
It would be the saddest days
And we watched the world weep
For a giant bigger than myths
A life owned by many
Now free as the gods
Only rich in wrinkles from where the spirit had been
It would be the saddest days
And we watched the world weep
For a giant bigger than myths
A life owned by many
Now free as the gods
Some cried as though tomorrow was lost
Some celebrated, questioned freedom and its cost
Some seized the chance to stand on his shoulders
While others cursed his grave and scorned wisdom of the elders
Some celebrated, questioned freedom and its cost
Some seized the chance to stand on his shoulders
While others cursed his grave and scorned wisdom of the elders
Stadiums were littered
And those in the know spoke their fill
Mourners paid tribute
Monarch to President made the bill
But still
Where do I we begin
In telling our children where these old bones have been
And that we as next of kin
Have inherited his struggle
And he forever lives through our skin
And those in the know spoke their fill
Mourners paid tribute
Monarch to President made the bill
But still
Where do I we begin
In telling our children where these old bones have been
And that we as next of kin
Have inherited his struggle
And he forever lives through our skin
And on his last day
When the earth reclaims what's hers
We will surrender his body but reignite his spirit
We will write all we know and let history read it to our children
And remind both scholar and critic
That there once was a prisoner of freedom
Who gave the world back its heart
But in the end
He died an ordinary man.'
When the earth reclaims what's hers
We will surrender his body but reignite his spirit
We will write all we know and let history read it to our children
And remind both scholar and critic
That there once was a prisoner of freedom
Who gave the world back its heart
But in the end
He died an ordinary man.'
