Many Non-Whites in apartheid were treated without respect, many examples of this is, not allowing them to use the same bathrooms, not letting them drink from the same fountains, etc. Most of which are just not allowing Non-whites do things that the Whites were doing. This caused people like Nelson Mandela to stand up for what was happening, as he believed it was racist and unfair. Nelson Mandela was a social rights activist, politician and philanthropist who became South Africa's first black president from 1994 to 1999. In 1993, Mandela and South African President F.W. DE Klerk were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to dismantle the country's apartheid system. The end of the Apartheid would promote coexistence and lessen the thought that one race was superior than the other.