Selected speeches and writings of Nelson Mandela
Subtitle: the end of apartheid in South Africa.
Publisher: Red and Black Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: St. Petersburg, Fla
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781934941782
Subjects: African National Congress -- History -- 20th century -- Sources; Apartheid -- South Africa -- History -- Sources; Anti-apartheid movements -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century -- Sources; Blacks -- South Africa -- Politics and government -- Sources; South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1948-1994 -- Sources; South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1994- -- Sources; South Africa -- Race relations -- Sources
Genres: Sources
Work titles: Selections.
Description: For 30 years, the African National Congress, led by Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela, was the core of opposition to the white supremacist apartheid regime in South Africa. After organizing strikes and founding the armed military wing of the ANC, Mandela spent 27 years in jail before emerging as a worldwide symbol of human freedom. In 1994, Mandela became President of South Africa, in the first free election in that nation's history. This anthology is a collection of Mandela's speeches and writings, from his statement to the South African court that sentenced him to life in prison, to his acceptance of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize, to his speeches as South Africa's first elected Black President. Preface gives brief biography.
Table of contents: title: "No easy walk to freedom"; title: General strike; title: Black man in a white court; title: "I am prepared to die"; title: Unite! mobilise! fight on!; title: The Mandela document; title: Mandela's address after his release from prison; title: Message to USA big business; title: Statement at UN Special Committee against Apartheid; title: Speech at the rally to relaunch the South African Communist Party; title: Speech to the organisation of African Unity; title: Statement at the World Economic Conference; title: Ceremony for the award of the Felix Houphouet-Boigny Peace Prize; title: Democracy-the only solution; title: Statement at the United Nations Security Council; title: Press statement, ANC/NP summit meeting; title: Speech to the National Conference on AIDS; title: Speech on acceptance of the Prince of Asturias Prize of International Co-operation; title: Negotiations, the ANC vision of a new South African and the Indian community; title: Speech to members of the British Parliament; title: Statement at the United Nations; title: Statement on the announcement of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize; title: Acceptance speech at the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony; title: Speech announcing the ANC election victory; title: Address on the occasion of inauguration as state president; title: State of the nation; title: Statement at the OAU; title: Address on the anniversary of the Soweto uprising.