The document discusses Gandhi and Mandela's roles in resisting apartheid in South Africa through nonviolent means. It describes apartheid as a system of legal racism and segregation enforced from 1948 to 1994. It also outlines Gandhi's use of satyagraha, or nonviolent resistance, including hunger strikes and the Dandi Salt March, to fight British colonial rule in India. Nelson Mandela was a leader of the African National Congress party who helped end apartheid and became South Africa's first black president in 1994.