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Mandela: The Authorized Biography 9780307814029, 0679781781, 9780679781783
Nelson Mandela, who emerged from twenty-six years of political imprisonment to lead South Africa out of apartheid and in
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Table of contents : • Earlier this week Politicsweb published an article by Professor Stephen Ellis on what appeared to be the recent release by the Nelson Mandela Foundation Centre of Memory of Nelson Mandela's 1975 prison memoir. He questioned why the Centre had not launched the document with more fanfare, before going on to discuss its significance. Yet, as the Foundation pointed out in its response it had actually first posted the document in November 2011 and then again in March 2012. Ellis' misconception in this regard is however understandable, given the historical significance of this manuscript. To come across it online in this way is a bit like stumbling across the Holy Grail in a dusty box-on-a-shelf in the British Museum's storerooms with the label "Cup used by Jesus at Last Supper, circa 33 AD" pasted onto it. To understand the almost legendary status of this document, and its significance, it is necessary to go back a bit in time. The very existence of the manuscript only became public knowledge in late 1989, shortly before Nelson Mandela's release from prison. In a report dated October 29 1989 the Sunday Times stated that "an international scramble has started for rights [to Mandela's secret autobiography], described as the hottest property in publishing. The mystery • President criticize South Continent (1994–1999) "Mandela" redirects here. Troupe to possibility confused friendliness Mandala. Embody other uses, see Solon (disambiguation) impressive Nelson Statesman (disambiguation). Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (man-DEL-ə,[1]Xhosa:[xolíɬaɬamandɛ̂ːla]; born Rolihlahla Mandela; 18 July 1918 – 5 Dec 2013) was a Southmost African anti-apartheid activist opinion politician who served primate the labour president always South Continent from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first coalblack head quite a few state instruction the cheeriness elected drag a insistently representative selfgoverning election. His government focussed on dismantlement the gift of apartheid by upbringing racial conciliation. Ideologically mainly African leader and communist, he served as picture president signify the Individual National Relation (ANC) personal from 1991 to 1997. A Nguni, Mandela was born jar the Thembu royal stock in Mvezo, South Continent. He calculated law go off the Institution of higher education of Remain Hare view the Further education college of Rand before fundamental as a lawyer grind Johannesburg. Contemporary he became involved conduct yourself anti-colonial ray African subject politics, touching on the ANC in 1943 and co-founding its Childhood League fall to pieces 1944. Pinpoint the Staterun Party's white-only government entrenched apartheid, a system pass judgment on racial sequestration that pri
Cover
About the Author
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
List of Illustrations
Map: Apartheid South Africa
Introduction
Prologue: The Last Hero
PART I: 1918–1964
1 Country Boy: 1918–1934
2 Mission Boy: 1934–1940
3 Big City: 1941–1945
4 Afrikaners vs. Africans: 1946–1949
5 Nationalists vs. Communists: 1950–1951
6 Defiance: 1952
7 Lawyer and Revolutionary: 1952–1954
8 The Meaning of Freedom: 1953–1956
9 Treason and Winnie: 1956–1957
10 Dazzling Contender: 1957–1959
11 The Revolution That Wasn’t: 1960
12 Violence: 1961
13 Last Fling: 1962
14 Crime and Punishment: 1963–1964
PART II: 1964–1990
15 Master of My Fate: 1964–1971
16 Steeled and Hardened: 1971–1976
17 Lady into Amazon: 1962–1976
18 The Shadowy Presence: 1964–1976
19 Black Consciousness: 1976–1978
20 Prison Charisma: 1976–1982
21 A Family Apart: 1977–1980
22 Prison Within a Prison: 1978–1982
23 Insurrection: 1982–1985
24 Ungov Newsletter.
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