It is assumed that laws are made in order that crimes are reduced or bad behavior is lessoned but in this case apartheid has allowed African men turn to an occupation of crime. If one looks at the underlying cause of the inspiration to turn to crime, the laws of apartheid create boundaries of unjust and immoral rules that encourage Africans to commit crimes. It is unfair to think to the legal system in which people turn to for protection are hindering men to lead good lives.
It was amusing to read how Milton Mkwayi was threatened to get arrested when he was already arrested and just got separated from the group. And Milton was refused enough times that he technically escaped from the trial for him. It just shows how the policeman were arresting people without proper information/motive. The police were obviously unorganized. If the policeman does not even know who they have under arrest, that fact justifies they are unlawfully arresting South Africans.
It was already difficult enough that they were arrested and had to prepare a trial in a jail. But they also have to deal with all the racially-motivated rules in terms of food and location of sleeping quarters. Mandela and the other prisoners had to deal with an unjust system from many angles.
“Under apartheid, a black man lived a shadowy life between legality and illegality…” (Mandela 267). When the rules of government become unreasonable or unjust for the common citizen, it forces men to resort to breaking the law. Living underground for Mandela sounds like a criminal instead of a civil-rights activist.
It was amusing to read how Milton Mkwayi was threatened to get arrested when he was already arrested and just got separated from the group. And Milton was refused enough times that he technically escaped from the trial for him. It just shows how the policeman were arresting people without proper information/motive. The police were obviously unorganized. If the policeman does not even know who they have under arrest, that fact justifies they are unlawfully arresting South Africans.
It was already difficult enough that they were arrested and had to prepare a trial in a jail. But they also have to deal with all the racially-motivated rules in terms of food and location of sleeping quarters. Mandela and the other prisoners had to deal with an unjust system from many angles.
“Under apartheid, a black man lived a shadowy life between legality and illegality…” (Mandela 267). When the rules of government become unreasonable or unjust for the common citizen, it forces men to resort to breaking the law. Living underground for Mandela sounds like a criminal instead of a civil-rights activist.
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