Two of the greatest global human events in the 20th century was the end of the apartheid regime in South Africa and the rise of Nelson Mandela, the leading anti-apartheid champion from his 27 years of imprisonment into the presidency of a new South Africa that was based on racial integration and racial equality. The government of the newly integrated South Africa that was headed by Nelson Mandela successfully dismantled the legacies of the apartheid regime in South Africa, such as, institutionalized racism, high black poverty and inequality. He also carried out a very successful national reconciliation and integration of all the racial groups under the former apartheid government into the new nation and her multiracial democracy.
Today at 95 and on his sick bed, Nelson Mandela has truly left his footprints on the sands of time in South Africa, all over the continent of Africa in particular and the rest of the human universe at large. Nelson Mandela's exemplary and extraordinary leadership in South Africa will continue to be the standard model and the reference point of what a truly effective leadership should be in Africa in particular where many of their leaders have failed their nations today and in the world in general for many years to come. I will conclude this article with a sentence from the official inauguration speech of Nelson Mandela when he took over a new South Africa as her elected president in 1994 in a multiracial party politics and election:"Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another."
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