Nelson Mandela

The Rough Guide to Cape Town, Winelands & Garden Route

by Rough Guides, James Bembridge and Barbara McCrea  · 4 Jan 2018  · 641pp  · 147,719 words

picturesque setting among the piers and quays of a working harbour. It’s also the embarkation point for ferries to Robben Island, the site of Nelson Mandela’s notorious incarceration. The rocky shore west of the Waterfront is occupied by the inner-city suburbs of Green Point, De Waterkant and Sea Point

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most compelling reserves in the Western Cape. 16 Robben Island Visit the notorious offshore jail where some of South Africa’s most famous figures, including Nelson Mandela, were incarcerated. 17 Cape Town International Jazz Festival Local musos come into their own at the most important jazz event of the year. 18 V

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symbol of Europe’s colonization of South Africa – a process whose death knell was struck from nearby City Hall, the attractive Edwardian building from which Nelson Mandela made his first speech after being released. South of the castle lie the poignant remains of District Six, the coloured inner-city suburb that was

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to spicy food. The Grand Parade appeared on TV screens throughout the world on February 11, 1990, when over sixty thousand people gathered to hear Nelson Mandela make his first speech after being released from prison, from the balcony of the City Hall. It’s also where an interfaith prayer was made

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Artscape Complex, while you may spot the glassy blue facade of the Foreshore’s latest construction triumph, the Netcare Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital, from the Nelson Mandela Boulevard flyover. Artscape Complex D.F. Malan St, just east of Heerengracht • Performance times vary; visit website for listings • 021 410 9800, artscape.co.za

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magnificent Table Mountain backdrop. Redeveloped in the 1990s, it is the city’s most popular tourist precinct for shopping, eating and drinking, and incorporates the Nelson Mandela Gateway – the embarkation point for unmissable trips to Robben Island. West of the Foreshore, with the Waterfront to its north, is De Waterkant, a once

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regularly perform. Look out, too, for Nobel Square, with its bronze statues of South Africa’s four Nobel Peace Prize-winners: Archbishop Desmond Tutu (1984); Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk (both 1993); and the least familiar, Chief Albert John Lutuli (1960), former president of the African National Congress (ANC) and

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Exhibit, featuring a small breeding colony of endangered African penguins (which you can see in their natural habitat at Boulders Beach) and the rockhopper penguins. Nelson Mandela Gateway Clock Tower Precinct • Daily 7.30am–5.30pm • Free • 021 413 4200, robben-island.org.za The imposing Clock Tower by the Waterfront’s

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swing bridge was built as the original Port Captain’s office in 1882. Adjacent to this is the Nelson Mandela Gateway, the embarkation point for ferries to Robben Island and sometimes referred to as Jetty 1. Here, the Robben Island Museum has installed a number

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half a day for the trip, and book as far in advance as possible. essentials: ROBBEN ISLAND Getting there The ferry from the Waterfront’s Nelson Mandela Gateway (May–Aug daily 9am, 11am & 1pm; Sept–April daily 9am, 11am, 1pm & 3pm) takes 30min–1hr. Tours are sometimes cancelled due to bad weather

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to Robben Island, the only ones that will get you onto it (adults R320, under-18s R180, for voyage, entry and tour) are from the Nelson Mandela Gateway. Book in advance; the boats are often full, especially around December and January (021 413 4200, www.robben-island.org.za). For online sales

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sufferers were exiled here, until 1931, when they were relocated to Pretoria, and sadly leprosy is not yet beaten in South Africa. clockwise from top NELSON MANDELA’S CELL, ROBBEN ISLAND; THE CLOCK TOWER; STREET PERFORMER AT THE WATERFRONT; DE WATERKANT Robert Sobukwe’s house Robert Sobukwe’s house is perhaps the

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1969, Sobukwe was restricted to Kimberley under house arrest, until his death from cancer in 1978. “We Serve with Pride”: the history of Robben Island Nelson Mandela may have been the most famous Robben Island prisoner, but he wasn’t the first. In the seventeenth century, the island became a place of

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at the island prison were greeted by a slogan on the gate that read: “Welcome to Robben Island: We Serve with Pride.” By 1963, when Nelson Mandela arrived, it had become a maximum-security prison. All the warders – but none of the prisoners – were white. Prisoners were only allowed to send and

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which their language movement was born in 1875, while for the ANC (and the international community), Paarl will be remembered as the place from which Nelson Mandela made the final steps of his long walk to freedom, when he walked out of Groot Drakenstein Prison (then called Victor Verster) in 1990. Paarl

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it cuts through Paarl, along the R301 (the southern extension of Jan van Riebeeck St) The Victor Verster Prison, renamed Groot Drakenstein in 2000, was Nelson Mandela’s last place of incarceration. It was through the gates at Victor Verster that Mandela walked to his freedom on February 11, 1990, and it

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workers on local farms – a policy that effectively ground the community into poverty. In 1995, in recognition of the mission’s role in offering education, Nelson Mandela renamed his official residence in Cape Town “Genadendal”. Today, the population of this principally coloured town numbers around four thousand people, adhering to a variety

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’s industrial feel is mitigated by a small historical centre with a selection of excellent restaurants and drinking spots. Nearby there are outstanding beaches around Nelson Mandela Bay as well as some beautiful coastal walks a few kilometres from town. Around an hour’s drive inland from Port Elizabeth is its biggest

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the Donkin Lighthouse and Pyramid. From the Campanile, the walk up to the lighthouse is rich in anti-apartheid history, with information plaques relating to Nelson Mandela, and some funky sculptures, such as the line of life-size laser-cut steel figures of voters giving triumphal fist pumps in 1994. Reaching the

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the desire of the English settlers to create a home from home in this strange, desiccated land. Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum 1 Park Drive • Mon & Wed–Fri 9am–5pm, Tues 2–5pm • Free The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, situated in two buildings framing the entrance to St George’s Park, sounds grander

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(daily; 5hr), Mthatha (daily; 8hr 50min). Baz Bus The Baz Bus will drop you off at the backpacker lodge that you are staying at. information Nelson Mandela Bay Tourism (nmbt.co.za) has several offices including: Port Elizabeth Airport, Arrivals Hall (Mon–Fri 7am–7pm, Sat 7am–6pm, Sun 8am–6pm; 041

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. The ANC responded in 1952 with the Defiance Campaign, whose aim was to grant full civil rights to black people. A radical young firebrand called Nelson Mandela was appointed “volunteer-in-chief” of the campaign, which had a crucial influence on his politics. Up to that point, he had rejected political association

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government declared a State of Emergency. They sent the army in to crush the strike, restored the pass laws and banned the ANC and PAC. Nelson Mandela continued to operate in secret for a year until he was finally captured in 1962, tried and later imprisoned – together with most of the ANC

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of apartheid, alongside the deployment of the armed forces in unprecedented acts of repression. In 1981, as resistance grew, Botha began contemplating change and moved Nelson Mandela and other ANC leaders from Robben Island to Pollsmoor Prison in mainland Cape Town. This was a symbolic gesture, as Pollsmoor had lower security, less

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other organizations, and released Mandela. On February 11, 1990, Cape Town’s history took a neat twist when, just hours after being released from prison, Nelson Mandela made his first public speech from the balcony of City Hall to a jubilant crowd, of over sixty thousand, spilling across the Grand Parade – the

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and office complex that adopted faux Tuscan architecture and Venice-inspired canals. More tasteful was the expansion of the V&A Waterfront to include the Nelson Mandela Gateway (2001), from where the ferry to Robben Island departs. In preparation for South Africa’s hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the iconic

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R200m of taxpayers’ money has been lavished on upgrading President Jacob Zuma’s private residence at Nkandla in KwaZulu-Natal. This and the death of Nelson Mandela in late 2013 signalled a crisis for the ideals of the Freedom Charter, which had inspired the ANC for over half a century. It underlined

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power in South Africa today, from one of the most respected commentators in the country. John Carlin Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that made a Nation. Gripping account of Nelson Mandela’s use of the 1995 Rugby World Cup to unite a fractious nation, in danger of collapsing into civil war

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so that her family would never forget their roots – which traces Magona’s life from the rural Transkei to the hard townships of Cape Town. Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom. Superb best-selling autobiography of the former president and national icon, which is wonderfully evocative of his early years and intensely

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Sobukwe. The story of one of the most important anti-apartheid liberation heroes, the late leader of the Pan Africanist Congress and a contemporary of Nelson Mandela. Sobukwe was so feared by the white government that they passed a special law – The Sobukwe Clause – to keep him in solitary confinement on Robben

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, the predominant mother tongue of the city’s African residents and easily distinguished by the clicks that form part of the words. It is also Nelson Mandela’s mother tongue, which he shares with over eight million other South Africans, predominantly in the Eastern Cape. The glossary below is far from comprehensive

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Rough Guides to Zimbabwe and Botswana, South Africa, Cape Town and the Garden Route, before returning to live in South Africa after the release of Nelson Mandela. She lives close to the beach in Cape Town, where she swims, rides and climbs mountains. Acknowledgements James Bainbridge: Thanks to Olivia and Keith at

Lonely Planet Cape Town & the Garden Route (Travel Guide)

by Lucy Corne  · 1 Sep 2015  · 1,203pp  · 124,556 words

10 Robben Island 2A World Heritage site, the former prison on Robben Island is a key location in South Africa’s long walk to freedom. Nelson Mandela and other Freedom struggle heroes were incarcerated here, following in the tragic footsteps of earlier fighters against the various colonial governments that ruled over the

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on the main mountain, up Lion’s Head or along Signal Hill. Street Art District Six and Woodstock are dotted with impressive large-scale works. Nelson Mandela Gateway Learn about the Freedom struggle and life in the prison before heading to Robben Island. Parks & Gardens Company’s Gardens Stroll through these historic

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’s history, the Grand Parade is where: the Dutch built their first fort in 1652; slaves were sold and punished; and crowds gathered to watch Nelson Mandela’s first address to the nation as a free man after 27 years in jail, made from the balcony of the old town hall. A

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like, you could explore (in daytime and preferably in company; the museum runs regular walking tours) the area around Chapel St, north of the raised Nelson Mandela Blvd; here you’ll find old workers cottages and Trafalgar Park ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; www.capetown.gov.za/en/parks/Pages/TrafalgarPark.aspx; cnr Victoria

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you'll find more eye-catching works. Substation 13STREET ART ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; Canterbury St, District Six; gLower Buitenkant)F A blue-hued painting of Nelson Mandela covers one side of this electrical substation building, while on the other is a mural dedicated to District Six. Both images were designed and painted

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lighting for public spaces in the township of Monwabisi Park. Freedom Struggle HeroesSTREET ART ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; Darling St, District Six; gHanover St) Portraits of Nelson Mandela, Steve Biko, Cissie Gool and Imam Haron are painted on the side of a building as if their faces were carved into the side of

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history of anti-Semitism and draws parallels to South Africa's struggle for freedom from apartheid. Downstairs you can watch the fascinating 25-minute documentary Nelson Mandela: A Righteous Man. Great Synagogue Make time for a short tour of the gorgeously decorated Great Synagogue (1905). Volunteer guides will point out aspects of

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& Waterfront Neighbourhood Top Five 1Journey to Robben Island, once an infamous prison and now a historical site, where you can see the cells in which Nelson Mandela and other heroes from the Freedom struggle spent time. 2Eyeball all kinds of sea life, including sharks, at the Two Oceans Aquarium. 3Discover the history

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cannon in front of the museum on Sunday at noon. Nobel Square Here’s your chance to have your photo taken with Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela. In Nobel Square stand larger-than-life statues (designed by Claudette Schreuders) of both men, alongside those of South Africa’s two other Nobel Prize

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MAP ; www.upcycles.co.za; gNobel Square), near the Clock Tower, and Awol Tours. TOP SIGHT Robben Island Robben Island’s best-known prisoner was Nelson Mandela, which makes it one of the most popular pilgrimage spots in all of Cape Town. Set some 12km out in Table Bay, the flat island

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2km by 4km, can only be visited on a tour that starts with a ferry journey (30 to 60 minutes, depending on the vessel) from Nelson Mandela Gateway at the Waterfront. Once on the island you'll be introduced to a guide, typically a former inmate, who will lead a walk through

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of research.) At the Quayside Even if you don’t make it to the island there are still things to see at the Waterfront. The Nelson Mandela Gateway ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; Clock Tower Precinct, V&A Waterfront; admission free; h9am-8.30pm; gNobel Square) has a small museum with displays that focus

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Ajax Cape Town, and has been used for big pop concerts by the likes of Coldplay and U2, as well as a memorial service for Nelson Mandela. Across from the new stadium, a section of the old Green Point Stadium forms the viewing platform for a running and cycling track. Cape Town

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metal-and-plastic pair of Ray-Bans – was unveiled on Sea Point Promenade. Looking out to Robben Island, Ellion's stated intention was to reference Nelson Mandela, who was once photographed wearing a pair of the iconic sunglasses. Dismissed by the local press as 'corporate vandalism' rather than art, by the end

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blend, Grand Classique, over lunch (three-course meal R340). There’s an art gallery too. Drakenstein PrisonHISTORIC SITE ( GOOGLE MAP ) On 11 February 1990, when Nelson Mandela walked free from incarceration for the first time in over 27 years, the jail he left was not on Robben Island, but here. Then called

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British took over in 1814, prompting many Afrikaners (Boers) to trek inland – only to come back with a vengeance during the apartheid years. In 1990 Nelson Mandela became a free man, hailing the start of a democratic South Africa. The Khoekhoen & San People Academics don’t know whether the earliest-recorded inhabitants

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Cape Town. In response, government bulldozers flattened the shanties, and their occupants were forced into the homelands. Within weeks, inevitably, the shanties would rise again. Nelson Mandela Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, one of the world’s greatest leaders, was born on 18 July 1918 in the village of Mveso on the Mbashe River

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– or Madiba, his traditional Xhosa name – stepped down as ANC president, although he continued to be revered as an elder statesman. On 5 December 2013 Nelson Mandela died, aged 95 years, from an ongoing respiratory infection. Madiba's legacy, which reverberates far beyond his country's borders, is what he achieved with

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in Gauteng were concurrent and resulted in the banning of the ANC and PAC. In response to the crisis, a warrant for the arrest of Nelson Mandela and other ANC leaders was issued. In mid-1963 Mandela was captured; at trial he was sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island. The government

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. It includes a map detailing the stories of many prominent activists and events in South Africa's 20th-century history. Path to Democracy In 1982 Nelson Mandela and other ANC leaders were moved from Robben Island to Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town. (In 1986 senior politicians began secretly talking with them.) Concurrently

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Party were legalised. On 11 February the world watched in awe as a living legend emerged from Victor Verster Prison near Paarl. Later that day Nelson Mandela delivered his first public speech since being incarcerated 27 years earlier to a massive crowd overspilling from Cape Town’s Grand Parade. From this time

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to vote in the Cape is removed (blacks had been denied the vote since 1910) as apartheid is rolled out. 1964 Following the Rivonia Trial, Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu and others escape the death penalty, but are sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island in Table Bay. 1976 Students in Langa, Nyanga

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Town Stadium, and hundreds of thousands more on the streets, watch the games. 2013 The Mother City joins the nation in mourning the death of Nelson Mandela, projecting a giant laser image of Madiba's face on Table Mountain. 2014 As World Design Capital, the city plans and implements projects that will

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knell of apartheid coincided with the redevelopment of the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront in the early 1990s. More recent architectural additions to the Waterfront include the Nelson Mandela Gateway and Clock Tower Precinct, built in 2001 as the new departure point for Robben Island, and the ritzy millionaire’s playground of the V

When They Go Low, We Go High: Speeches That Shape the World – and Why We Need Them

by Philip Collins  · 4 Oct 2017  · 475pp  · 156,046 words

All Its Faults, The Constitutional Convention, Philadelphia, 17 September 1787 Jawaharlal Nehru: A Tryst with Destiny, Constituent Assembly, Parliament House, New Delhi, 14 August 1947 Nelson Mandela: An Ideal for Which I Am Prepared to Die, Supreme Court of South Africa, Pretoria, 20 April 1964 Aung San Suu Kyi: Freedom from Fear

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cause is a heartening one. Momentous speeches are always given in answer to a signal injustice or crisis – think of Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela. The success of the developed democracies means injustice is less acute than it once was. The great questions – the entitlement to vote, material and gender

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too often denied in favour of a shrunken and exclusive idea of who truly belongs to the people. In the dock in Rivonia, South Africa, Nelson Mandela gave a magnificent retort to a racial definition of who belongs in his country. As a former resident returning to Burma from exile abroad, Aung

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words defined the possibility of the nation that India is in the constant process of becoming. NELSON MANDELA An Ideal for Which I Am Prepared to Die Supreme Court of South Africa, Pretoria 20 April 1964 Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) became, for a generation of people, within South Africa and far beyond, the captain

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he served between 1994 and 1999. When Mandela died in 2013 his death shook the world like that of no politician since John F. Kennedy. Nelson Mandela was born in Mvezo, near Umata, in the native reserve of the Transkei in the Eastern Cape, into the royal house of the Thembu people

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an extraordinary man and his was an extraordinary life. He was born Rolihlahla, a name that means ‘troublemaker’. He died ninety-five years later as Nelson Mandela, in a time he had done so much to change, on 5 December 2013, for all his flaws a hero unmatched in his time. I

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Parliament, Strasbourg 10 July 1991 The demand for liberty cannot always be voiced. The dangers of nationhood are evident in the fact that Jawaharlal Nehru, Nelson Mandela and Aung San Suu Kyi were imprisoned by governments that wanted to silence them. Words that cannot be spoken can still be read, however, and

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of her father’s work and the rights of ownership to that work. There was also a rupture between Suu Kyi and her father. Unlike Nelson Mandela Suu Kyi had always rejected armed struggle. When her mother Khin Kyi accepted privileged exile in Delhi as Burma’s first female ambassador, the teenage

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the cases of Benjamin Franklin and Jawaharlal Nehru the nation is defined as the prize to be won after the departure of a colonial power. Nelson Mandela defined the nation generously in defiance of an exclusive account of who belongs to it. The nation is constituted by the people, and belonging therefore

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fighters, like Gandhi, Martin Luther King or Aung San Suu Kyi, who eschewed the use of arms. She is not even in the company of Nelson Mandela, whose turn to armed struggle was weighed down with caveats. La Pasionaria could talk of the fight with an emotion that sounded rather too close

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imprisoned. Batista made the mistake of turning the subsequent trial into a media spectacle that gave Fidel Castro his chance to attack the regime. Like Nelson Mandela before him, in this one respect at least Castro’s greatest moment came in court, as the first accused. The speech that follows is a

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an exposition on Cuban history to show that it is the generals who are the aberration rather than the revolutionaries. After this section, rather like Nelson Mandela in the same situation, he goes into great detail about the chronology of the struggle and its battles. The extenuating factor is that this is

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George, Woodrow Wilson, Winston Churchill and Ronald Reagan. A generous idea of national belonging was the rhetorical achievement of Elizabeth I, Benjamin Franklin, Jawaharlal Nehru, Nelson Mandela and Aung San Suu Kyi. The unrivalled capacity of liberal democracies to recognise the equal moral worth of all individuals was argued, with the greatest

Humankind: A Hopeful History

by Rutger Bregman  · 1 Jun 2020  · 578pp  · 131,346 words

one of the most renowned figures of the twentieth century. On 11 February 1990, millions of people sat glued to their televisions to see him. Nelson Mandela, imprisoned for twenty-seven years, became a free man on that day. Finally, there was hope for peace and reconciliation between black and white South

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things stand now,’ Constand replies, ‘we have only one option, and that is to fight.’17 Then Braam makes a proposal, a plan he and Nelson Mandela have hammered out together in the utmost secrecy. What would Constand say, Braam asks, to sitting down with the ANC leadership for direct talks about

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Johannesburg on 12 August 1993. They expect to be greeted by household staff, but standing before them with a big grin is the man himself. Nelson Mandela. It’s a historic moment: the hero of the new South Africa standing eye to eye with the hero of the old. The peacemaker opposite

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The bad may seem stronger, but it’s outnumbered by the good. If there’s one person who understood the power of contact it was Nelson Mandela. Years earlier, he had chosen a very different path – the path of violence. In 1960, Mandela had been one of the founding members of the

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the rest of us. By applying our intellect and examining recidivism statistics, we realise it’s an excellent way to deal with criminals. Or take Nelson Mandela’s ethic of statesmanship. Over and over he had to bite his tongue, tamp down on his emotions and stay sharp and analytical. Mandela was

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’s independence movement, whom Churchill dismissed as a ‘half-naked fakir’. ‘Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished,’ said Nelson Mandela, who was imprisoned for twenty-seven years by a criminal regime. 41Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays (Stillwell, 2008), p. 29. Originally published in 1910

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, 1970). 11Gordon Allport, ‘Autobiography’, in Edwin Boring and Gardner Lindzey (eds), History of Psychology in Autobiography (New York, 1967), pp. 3–25. 12John Carlin, Invictus. Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation (London, 2009), p. 122. 13Quoted in ibid., p. 123. 14Ibid., p. 124 15Ibid., p. 135. 16Cruywagen, Brothers in

Conflicted: How Productive Disagreements Lead to Better Outcomes

by Ian Leslie  · 23 Feb 2021  · 280pp  · 82,393 words

uniting forces against what they saw as a hostile black takeover of their country. Just over three years previously, the South African government had released Nelson Mandela from prison after twenty-seven years, following intense domestic and international pressure. They had also legalised his party, the African National Congress (ANC). Apartheid, the

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accepted and confirmed, they’re going to be a lot easier to deal with, and more likely to listen to what you have to say. Nelson Mandela was a genius of facework, particularly when it came to the art of giving face. His elaborate show of courtesy towards Viljoen was strategic. He

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to surrender his identity. He could be part of the nation and still be proudly himself: an Afrikaner, a military veteran, a South African citizen. Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as president in May 1994, and a new parliament opened, one that reflected the racial diversity of South Africa: two-thirds of the

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proved vital sources of inspiration. Thanks to Pamela Druckerman and Simon Kuper; to Simon in particular for pointing me to John Carlin’s book on Nelson Mandela. Thank you to the many friends, too many to mention here – also I’m scared of leaving someone out – who have talked through ideas, shared

City Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World

by Catie Marron  · 11 Apr 2016  · 195pp  · 58,462 words

of a national tragedy, and is now an almost empty void, even as hectic urban life bustles with energy around its edges. Rick Stengel recounts Nelson Mandela’s choice of the Grand Parade, Cape Town, a huge market square that was transformed into a public space of historic magnitude when he spoke

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see beyond their limits. We often see the greatest hits of change. We see Martin Luther King, Jr., lead a march on Washington; we see Nelson Mandela freeing South Africa. But we don’t see the process of change. We don’t experience the agony of King’s family over the years

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, Paris, January 11, 2015 CHRIS LEDOCHOWSKI South Photos/African Media Online GRAND PARADE, CAPE TOWN: A SPEECH FOR THE AGES Richard Stengel THE FIRST THING NELSON MANDELA DID AFTER GETTING OUT OF prison was to get lost. On a bright January afternoon, after twenty-seven years behind bars, Mandela strode confidently out

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University of Cape Town, Vanessa Watson. Watson lives in the same suburb where she was living when Nelson Mandela dropped by her house on his way to the Grand Parade. The baby boy whom Nelson Mandela held is now a twenty-four-year-old law student. Watson speaks in a firm voice with a

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times but never talked to him again. Still, her boys’ lives were shaped by that singular summer afternoon they were too young to remember. When Nelson Mandela ascended to the balcony of City Hall, no one had heard him speak in twenty-seven years. No one was sure what he looked like

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Diplomacy and Public Affairs. He was previously managing editor of TIME. He has also taught journalism at Princeton University, his alma mater. He collaborated with Nelson Mandela on the South African’s autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, and then wrote his own book about the experience, Mandela’s Way: Lessons on Life

One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories

by B. J. Novak  · 4 Feb 2014

: Grocery spill at 21st and 6th 2:30 pm on Wednesday I Never Want to Walk on the Moon Sophia The Comedy Central Roast of Nelson Mandela They Kept Driving Faster and Outran the Rain The Man Who Invented the Calendar The Ghost of Mark Twain The Beautiful Girl in the Bookstore

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they put her on the phone, and she says one more thing. The Comedy Central Roast of Nelson Mandela The following is a transcript of excerpts from the unaired 2012 special The Comedy Central Roast of Nelson Mandela. There is currently no broadcast date for this special. ANNOUNCER: Welcome to the Comedy Central Roast

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of Nelson Mandela! With Jeffrey Ross! Lisa Lampanelli! Archbishop Desmond Tutu! Archbishop Don “Magic” Juan! Winnie Mandela! Sisqo! Anthony Jeselnik

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Boo Boo Child. He turns slowly to reveal his costume. He receives a standing ovation. JEFFREY ROSS: What an honor to be here roasting President Nelson Mandela. (Applause) President Mandela, you’re a good sport, thank you for agreeing to be here. All proceeds tonight go to the

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Nelson Mandela Foundation, which fights poverty in Africa. (Applause) Poverty in Africa—I have a feeling your charity is going to be around for quite a while,

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ovation. JEFFREY ROSS: But we’re not here to talk about Lisa Lampanelli’s enormous vagina. We’re here to honor a great man, President Nelson Mandela. (Applause) President Mandela, you spent eighteen of your twenty-seven years in prison on notorious Robben Island, working on a limestone quarry. (Mandela nods) So

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say? JEFFREY ROSS: If our next roaster sang, the night would be over. But she’s not here to sing, she’s here to roast Nelson Mandela. Now, look out, Nelson: here comes the Queen of Mean, Lisa Lampanelli! LISA LAMPANELLI: Whoa! Look at all these hot black men! (Applause and “wooos

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of his hand so that a middle finger “inflates” toward Lisa Lampanelli; but he does this too slowly, and the camera cuts away mid-inflate. Nelson Mandela smiles politely. ANNOUNCER: And now, ladies and gentlemen, a special video message from His Holiness the Dalai Lama. A video screen lowers. DALAI LAMA (on

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mandelaroast.com!” JEFFREY ROSS: Ladies and gentlemen, a living legend, one of the great men of all time, Gilbert Gottfried. Sustained standing ovation. GILBERT GOTTFRIED: NELSON MANDELA IS ONE OF THE GREAT MEN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. (Applause) AND ONE OF THE GREAT MEN OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND OF THE EIGHTEENTH

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THE TWELFTH CENTURY AND OF THE ELEVENTH CENTURY. NELSON, LOOK AT YOU, HOW OLD ARE YOU? NELSON MANDELA IS SO OLD, HE HATES HIS PRESIDENTIAL LIMOUSINE BECAUSE HE STILL CAN’T GET USED TO THE WHEELS! NELSON MANDELA IS ONE OF THE GREAT MEN OF THE TENTH CENTURY AND ONE OF THE GREAT MEN

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SEVENTH CENTURY— JEFFREY ROSS: And now, ladies and gentlemen, the man of the hour, a living legend, President Nelson Mandela! A standing ovation almost as long as the one for Gilbert Gottfried. PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA: Thank you. The day I was released from prison, I said that any man that tries to rob me

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covers his ears) Now, let me tease myself first, for I did not know exactly what this event would entail. I was informed that the Nelson Mandela Foundation would receive a sum of money and that comedians would poke fun at me on television. So, because I am the one who is

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you could have seen that! Did they record that? Do they record the audience at these things? Oh, my … the looks on your faces as Nelson Mandela told you that your lives were worthless? That your existence was a waste of the privilege of freedom?! (Mandela laughs until he has to clutch

Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History

by Alex von Tunzelmann  · 7 Jul 2021  · 337pp  · 87,236 words

For now, Rhodes is still in his grave, with Jameson at his side. In South Africa, apartheid finally fell in the early 1990s. The activist Nelson Mandela, imprisoned since 1964, was freed in 1990. The Population Registration Act was repealed in 1991. South Africa had its first post-apartheid elections in 1994

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, took a similar view, telling the Daily Telegraph that taking the statue down would be ‘a refusal to acknowledge our past’. She attempted to use Nelson Mandela’s 2003 remarks on Rhodes as an argument for keeping the statue, saying that Mandela ‘was a man of deep nuance who recognised complex problems

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. 6, no.1 (2002), p. 143. 30Isabel Wilkerson, ‘Apartheid is Demolished. Must Its Monuments Be?’, The New York Times, 25 September 1994. 31‘Our story: Nelson Mandela and the Rhodes Trust’, Mandela Rhodes Foundation, https://www.mandelarhodes.org/about/story/. 32Nelson Mandela, remarks at the Mandela Rhodes Banquet, 2003, available at the

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Nelson Mandela Foundation Archive, https://atom.nelsonmandela.org/index.php/za-com-mr-s-993. 33Quoted in Nita Bhalla, ‘South Africa’s #RhodesMustFall Founder Speaks Out on

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want to topple Rhodes”’, Daily Telegraph, 11 June 2020. 54Quoted in ‘Oxford vice-chancellor condemned by dons’, Daily Telegraph, 17 June 2020. 55‘Lessons from Nelson Mandela on reconciliation, reparation, and the path to prosperity’, Mandela Rhodes Foundation, 15 June 2020, https://www.mandelarhodes.org/ideas/mandela-rhodes-foundation-statement/. 56Quoted in

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on the wall was a painting of Lincoln, deep in thought, consulting Grant at the height of the Civil War; a photo of Obama meeting Nelson Mandela; a pair of boxing gloves used by Muhammad Ali. Obama sat at the table while I remained standing. I worried that I was overstepping my

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his growing opposition, some gesture at a unity government that could hold the country together. “You know,” he said, “I just left South Africa, where Nelson Mandela is in the hospital and is very sick. You know when he came to power he could have gone to the white minority in South

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most powerful man in the world, but that didn’t mean he could control the forces at play in the Middle East. There was no Nelson Mandela who could lead a country to absolution for its sins and ours. Extremist forces were exploiting the Arab Spring. Reactionary forces—with deep reservoirs of

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, or transform American society in four or eight years. I was one of those well-meaning white people looking forward to seeing Barack Obama eulogize Nelson Mandela so that I could feel better about the world, only I was the person tasked with writing the eulogy. After putting it off for a

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the dawn of a new day. Michelle and I are beneficiaries of that struggle….Over 30 years ago, while still a student, I learned of Nelson Mandela and the struggles taking place in this beautiful land, and it stirred something in me. It woke me up to my responsibilities to others and

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African civil society for better governance. Another powerful sign that the Cold War was over and that entrenched systems could change was the release of Nelson Mandela in February 1990 after twenty-seven years in prison, followed by the formal end of apartheid in South Africa four years later. Mandela's release

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, independence movements throughout the continent struggled to free their fellow citizens from colonialism and imperialism—including those led by Jomo Kenyatta, Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah, Nelson Mandela, and Walter Sisulu. One is reminded of the courage and determination of those who fought for women's suffrage in the early part of the

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, some leaders tried, often at great personal sacrifice, to give that hope to their people and to the African people at large—men such as Nelson Mandela in South Africa, Julius Nyerere in Tanzania, Seretse Khama in Botswana, Léopold Senghor in Senegal, Ahmed Ben Bella in Algeria, and even Kwame Nkrumah of

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. So although the people of eastern Europe brought down the Berlin Wall, they needed Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev not to send in the tanks. While Nelson Mandela's principled stance led to sanctions against South Africa that brought unbearable pressure upon the apartheid regime, F. W. de Klerk had to concede that

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. Finally, the AU deployed Kofi Annan as its chief mediator. He was joined by Graça Machel, the former first lady of Mozambique and wife of Nelson Mandela, and the former president of Tanzania, Benjamin Mkapa, to form a team of eminent Africans to facilitate dialogue. After six weeks of active diplomacy, Mr

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soon after, the historic 1994 elections. The fact that there was not widespread violence is in large measure due to the vision and commitment of Nelson Mandela, who, from the time he was released from prison, continually referred to South Africa as the “rainbow nation.” He and other African National Congress (ANC

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the people had come together and all races and religions were hugging each other.” Another member of the team, Joost van der Westhuizen, recounted: “Seeing Nelson Mandela … and [to] think about what that guy did for this country, and now suddenly we did something for this country. It's quite a lesson

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for the common good, and commitment, persistence, and patience until a goal is realized. They will live their lives for something larger than themselves. Like Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Julius Nyerere, and Kwame Nkrumah—who are known and admired for the tasks they undertook that were beyond their narrow self-interests, who

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Pushes Budget to SH760 Billion,” Business Daily Africa, June 11, 2008. Ten EMBRACING THE MICRO-NATIONS 1 The story is told in John Carlin, “How Nelson Mandela Won the Rugby World Cup,” Daily Telegraph (UK), October 19, 2007; and Karen Bond, “Mandela Unites a Nation to RWC Glory,” Rugby News Service, July

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