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Mandela was jailed in 1962 and taken to Robben Island in 1963 where he experienced conditions of great deprivation. Mandela was in Robben Island Prison until 1982, when he was transferred, first, to Polismoor Prison and, later, to Victor Verster Prison. He was released in 1990, after President F. W. de Klerk resolved that all political prisoners were to be freed.
During the period of his incarceration, Mandela became an increasingly prominent symbol of the injustices perpetrated in South Africa, as the international community joined together to condemn the apartheid regime. Along with imposing economic sanctions, the international community also excluded South Africa from sporting competition, most notably the Olympics. New Zealand continued to play rugby against South Africa until 1981, when the Springbok tour of New Zealand was bitterly opposed by many New Zealanders and resulted in extreme social discord.
From ACMI Education Resource Invictus: Exploring Issues of Identity and Belonging
Includes interviews, anecdotes, and video of Nelson Mandela's life and the people he met.
A Transcript of Mandela's statement from the dock during his trial in 1964 - the trial that led to 27 years imprisonment. Mandela repeated this pledge on his release from prison in 1990.
Mandela's inauguration speech shows how words can be used to capture people’s imaginations and build a sense of belonging and national identity.
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Nelson Mandela long walk to freedom by
Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Here counts the surprisingly eventful twenty-seven years in prison and the complex, delicate negotiations that led both to his freedom and to the beginning of the end of apartheid.
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Apartheid, 1948-1994 by
his new study offers a fresh interpretation of apartheid South Africa. Emerging out of the author's long-standing interests in the history of racial segregation, and drawing on a great deal of new scholarship, archival collections, and personal memoirs, he situates apartheid in global as well as local contexts.
