STD 10 - Nelson Mandela

SAINI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL HOWRAH

CBSE AFFILIATED SCHOOL

CLASS - 10 SUBJECT - ENGLISH NELSON MANDELA DATE – 18.04.2023

1. Describe the obligations which the author is talking about and also describe his feelings for them?
obligation for every man. The first obligation is

In the chapter the author has talked about two obligations
towards his family, parents, his wife and children. The second is towards his community and his
country. Being a social person one has to fulfill these obligations.
But being a black person in South Africa, a man was not free to perform his obligations
ob and got
punished if one tried to do that. Being a child the author never thought of such obligations but after
he did so, he fought for the people and the country to be free and enjoy their freedom of
performing their duties both personally
personal and socially.
2. What is the policy of Apartheid

Apartheid? What was its impact on the blacks?
The racial discrimination by whites against blacks in South Africa was termed as the policy of
Africa
Apartheid. The blacks were deprived of their rights. They had no freedom for education or
entertainment of their choice. The blacks were tortured and so suffered badly at the hands of the
whites. They faced oppression and brutality.
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It created a deep and lasting wound in his country and its people. It would take generations to
recover from that profound wound.
3. How did the desire for the freedom of his people change Nelson Mandela’s life?
The desire for the freedom of his people totally animated Nelson Mandela’s life. He was transformed
aw abiding attorney to a criminal.
from a frightened young man to a bold one. The desire turned a llaw
A family- loving husband was turned into a man without a home, changed a life
life-loving man into a
monk. Mandela was no more virtuous as self sacrificing, but he could not even enjoy that poor and
limited freedom. He felt himself robbed when he came to know that his people were not free. He
felt that the slavery of his people was slavery of his own.
4. What does Mandela mean to say that the oppressor and the oppressed alike are robbed of their
humanity?
Mandela is right in saying that the oppressor and the oppressed alike are robbed of their humanity.
Both of them are actually the victim of hatred. Everyone is obliged to discharge their duties whether
freedom a man cannot do so. The person who snatches this freedom
personal or social but without freedom
of a man is really an oppressor and a prisoner of hatred.
hatr He has lack of humanity and this is the same
with a person who is oppressed by another.
5. Describe the views of Mandela for the black people who fought and sacrificed their likes for the
country’s political independence?
Mandela always said that the political freedom was the result of sacrifices of thousands of the black
people who fought for that. He said that it could not be repaid. He thought himself as the sum of all
of those African patriots. He regretted that he could not thank them. He cursed the policy of
apartheid that wounded the people of his country, which would take centuries to heal.
He also said that the oppression and brutality of the white people produced great freedom fighters
like Oliver Tambo, Walter Sisulu, Luthuli, Dadoo, Fischer, Sobukwe and many more. They were the
men of courage, wisdom and large heartedness. They really suffered a lot for the political freedom of
the country.
6. What does Nelson Mandela refer to as “an extraordinary human disaster”?
Nelson Mandela refers to the apartheid policy of the white race against the black people as “an
extraordinary human disaster”. White people snatched freedom from the coloured people of South
Africa to whom the country belonged. The black people were subjected to oppression for long. They
were not even allowed to discharge their obligations to their own families, community and their
country. White people had no compassion for them and oppressed their own people and put them
in prison. If they had some freedom, it was curtailed. The black people lived the life of slaves.
7. How does Nelson Mandela define the meaning of ‘courage’ and ‘the brave man’?
According to Nelson Mandela, courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. In the
same way, the brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
8. Why is 10th May, 1994 important for South Africa?

10th May, 1994 is important for South Africa as the inaugural oath taking ceremony of Nelson
Mandela and his colleagues took place on this day. Nelson Mandela became the first black President
of South Africa after three centuries of white rule.
9. What freedom meant to Mandela in childhood?

During childhood the meaning of freedom for Mandela was quite limited he considered it to be free
to run in the fields, to swim in the clear stream, free to roast mealies and ride the board backs of
slow moving bulls.
10. What is the dream of Nelson Mandela for the future of South Africa?
Mandela dreamt that his country should be free from poverty and discrimination. No country man
should be oppressed on the basis of colour and creed.
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SAINI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL HOWRAH

CBSE AFFILIATED SCHOOL

CLASS - 10 SUBJECT - ENGLISH NELSON MANDELA DATE – 18.04.2023

obligation for every man. The first obligation is

2. What is the policy of Apartheid

6. What does Nelson Mandela refer to as “an extraordinary human disaster”?

8. Why is 10th May, 1994 important for South Africa?

9. What freedom meant to Mandela in childhood?

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