Malala Yousafzai speaks against 'gender apartheid' in Afghanistan

JOHANNESBURG - Pakistani activist, Malala Yousafzai delivered the keynote address at the 21st Annual Nelson Mandela lecture on Tuesday.

The lecture takes place no the 10 year anniversary of his death.

She paid tribute to Mandela as a resilient fighter who stood for what is right, regardless of circumstances.

Yousafzai says that she drew inspiration from Mandela as a young girl in Pakistan whose right to education was being threatened by the Taliban.

She was shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012 at the age of 15.

The plight of girls in Aghanistan who are denied an education, was the main focus of her speech.

Yousafzai survived an attempted assassination attempt by the Pakistani Taliban and left Pakistan but continued her activism and went on to win the Nobel  peace Prize, at 17,the youngest person ever to do so.

On Tuesday, she called for an end to what she calls gender apartheid, urging immediate action to stop the injustices against girl children and women in Afghanistan.