Yes. Apartheid was a policy that Mandela fought AGAINST.
Two reasons: he suffered and fought for decades to end the evil of apartheid; having ended it, he essentially forgave its perpetrators.
Nelson Mandela
AN oil embargo helped end apartheid in South Africa. Another thing that helped end apartheid was that in 1991 the South African government repealed apartheid laws.
Nelson Mandela fought to end apartheid and was imprisoned for 27 years because of his activism against the regime in South Africa.
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Nelson Mandella fought the inequalites of Apartheid in South Africa
Anti-Apartheid Movement ended in 1994.
Nelon Mandela saw synonymous with apartheid because he was the biggest helper to end apartheid in South Africa
Nelson Mandela wanted to end Apartheid in South Africa, so he used civil disobedience and boycotts to end Apartheid.
Basically he he made the decision that apartheid needed to be reformed, he dismantled petty apartheid laws and then announced the end of apartheid altogether. He released leaders of the black resistance, including Nelson Mandela. In addition, he signed the Pretoria Minote.
Their biggest fear was probably that black people would want to take revenge on them for apartheid and that there would be a lot of violence with the end of apartheid, and that the whole country would be in chaos.