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Authors: Nelson Mandela
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Dumani Mandela. Makaziwe Mandela’s son and Mandela’s grandson.
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Allan Hendrickse (1927–2005). Minister, teacher and Labour Party politician.
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Marietjie van der Merwe. Wife of Harvey van der Merwe, a friend of Mandela’s.
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Shenaz Meer. Daughter of Fatima Meer, see
People, Places and Events
.
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Jimmy Cliff (1948–). Jamaican ska and reggae singer.
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Sol Plaatje: South African Nationalist
, Brian Willan (published 1984). Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje, see
People, Places and Events
.
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Mandela is referring to his study for his law degree.
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Mandela’s height measures two centimetres taller than the previous measurement in December 1983, suggesting a lackadaisical attitude by the guards measuring him.
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Sophie’s Choice
(released 1982).
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Amadeus
(released 1984).
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Olusegun Obasanjo (1937–). General of the Nigerian Army. President of Nigeria, 1999–2007. He was one of seven in the Eminent Persons Group, who were sent by the Commonwealth to investigate apartheid South Africa.
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Possibly
Boetie Gaan Border Toe
(released 1984).
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James Gregory (1941–93). Warder, censor and author of
Goodbye Bafana
(published 1995).
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NoMoscow. Senior wife of King Sabata and mother of King Buyelekhaya. King Sabata Jonguhlanga Dalindyebo died in exile in Zambia.
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Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang
(released 1978).
Electric Boogie
(released 1983).
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Tiaan van der Merwe. Progressive Federal Party MP.
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Daliwonga is K D Matanzima.
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Reverend Peter Storey. Methodist minister.
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Revenge of the Nerds
(released 1984).
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Members of MK who were executed on 9 September 1986.
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Nelson Title Mabuna (d. 1996). Imbongi. (An imbongi is a traditional praise poet.)
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Dr James (Jimmy) Lowell Zwelinzima Njongwe (1919–76). Medical doctor and anti-apartheid activist. Cape president of the ANC. Constance (Connie) Njongwe (1920–2009). Nurse and anti-apartheid activist. Wife of Dr James Njongwe.
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Walter Sisulu, Raymond Mhlaba, Andrew Mlangeni and Ahmed Kathrada were now being held in the women’s section of Pollsmoor Prison.
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John Barratt (1930–2007). National director of the South African Institute of International Affairs, 1967–94.
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Nontancu Mabel Timakwe (née Mandela) (1924–2002).
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Nomabandla Piliso (née Leabie) (1930–97). Zozo is Zindzi’s daughter and Mandela’s granddaughter, Zoleka, and Zondwa is Zindzi’s son and Mandela’s grandson, also known as Gadaffi (1985–).
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One Zondwa is Zindzi’s son. The other is Zondwa Malefane, son of M K Malefane.
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Lazar Sidelsky’s children.
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Mandla Mandela (1974–). Makgatho’s son and Mandela’s grandson.
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Mafu is Mafu Matanzima.
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Princess Stella Sigcau (1937–2006). Prime minister of the Transkei, 1987, and a cabinet minister in post-apartheid South Africa.
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Mamphela Ramphele (1947–). Academic, doctor and anti-apartheid activist.
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Oscar Mafakafaka Mpetha (1909–94). Anti-apartheid activist, trade unionist and political prisoner.
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Ndaba Mandela. Makgatho’s son and Mandela’s grandson.
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Frederik Willem (F W) de Klerk, see
People, Places and Events
.
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Walter Sisulu, Raymond Mhlaba, Ahmed Kathrada, Andrew Mlangeni, Elias Motsoaledi, Jeff Masemola, Wilton Mkwayi and Oscar Mpetha were released five days later from Johannesburg Prison.
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Gerrit Viljoen (1926–2009). Minister of Constitutional Development. He provided a framework for the government’s discussions with the ANC.
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Jafta (Jeff) Kgalabi Masemola (1928–90). Political activist and political prisoner. Member of the PAC.
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Rochelle Mtirara. Mandela’s granddaughter by tradition.
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Cyril Ramaphosa and Murphy Morobe.
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Mary Benson (1919–2000). Writer and anti-apartheid activist.
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Reggie Vandeyar and Shirish Nanabhai were members of MK who became political prisoners.
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Ntsiki is Albertina Sisulu.
Chapter Twelve: From a Polecat to a Miracle
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Sam Ntuli (d. 1991). Assassinated member of the ANC. Mourners were murdered by gunmen at his funeral in Katlehong, East Rand.
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Graça Machel, see
People, Places and Events
.
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CODESA was a multi-party negotiating forum which started on 21 December 1991 at the World Trade Centre in Johannesburg.
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Violence between supporters of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the ANC led to thousands of deaths in KwaZulu-Natal from 1985 to 1995.
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Twenty-eight ANC supporters were shot dead by soliders on 7 September 1992, during a protest march where 70,000 ANC supporters tried to enter a sports stadium in Bisho, Ciskei.
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The National Peace Accord, negotiated by South African political organisations in 1991, aimed to prevent violence. The Goldstone Commission was established to investigate political violence and intimidation.
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Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa (1952–). Tembisile (Chris) Hani, see
People, Places and Events
. Gertrude Shope (1925–). Ronnie Kasrils (1938–). Dr Raymond Suttner (1945–). Tony Yengeni (1954–). ANC leaders.
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Chris Hani, see
People, Places and Events
.
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Mandela is referring to Hani’s neighbour, who recorded Waluś’s licence-plate number and called the police.
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Joaquim Alberto Chissano (1939–). President of Mozambique, 1986–2005.
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On 26 March 1990 twelve people were killed and three hundred injured when police opened fire on a group of ANC protestors in Sebokeng, thirty miles from Johannesburg.
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In 1993 Mandela proposed to reduce the voting age from eighteen to fourteen. The idea was rejected by the ANC Executive Committee.
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Oliver Tambo, who had returned to South Africa in 1991 after three decades in exile, died of a stroke on 24 April 1993.
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Nineteen boys had been murdered by a serial killer in Mitchell’s Plain, Cape Town.
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Clarence Makwetu, John Nyathi Pokela, Edward (Eddie) Daniels, Dr Neville Alexander, Sathasivan (Saths) Cooper, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki, Ahmed Kathrada, George Peake, Dennis Brutus, see
People, Places and Events
.
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Pieter Willem (P W) Botha, see
People, Places and Events
.
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Ferdinand Hartzenberg (1936–). Originally a National Party politician, but helped to form the right-wing Conservative Party in 1982. Constand Viljoen (1933–). Former head of the apartheid-era defence force and leader of Freedom Front.
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Eugène Ney Terre’Blanche (1941–2010). Founder of the far-right Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (or AWB) which was committed to the creation of a Boer/Afrikaner republic.
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Johan Adam Heyns (1928–94). Theologian of the Dutch Reformed Church.
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‘The Vlakplaas Unit’, a division of the counter-insurgency unit of the South African Police, was responsible for the torture and deaths of many anti-apartheid activists.
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G J (Jakes) Gerwel, see
People, Places and Events
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In 1994 Machel was appointed by the United Nations to lead a study on the impact of armed conflicton children.
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Franklin Sonn (1939–). Member of the ANC. South Africa’s ambassador to the USA 1995–98.
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Kenneth (K K) Kaunda (1924–). President of Zambia, 1964–91. He was placed under house arrest for five months.
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Shell House was the headquarters of the ANC in central Johannesburg.
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Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe (1949–). Leading member of the ANC. Interim President of South Africa, September 2008 – May 2009. Deputy President of South Africa, 2009–.
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Cheryl Carolus (1958–). Politician. Member of ANC. South Africa’s High Commissioner to London.
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Queen Bongolethu Ndamase, mother of Ndamase Ndamase, the current ruler of a section of the AbaThembu.
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Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo. Heir to the AbaThembu royal throne. Queen Noluntu Dalindyebo. Junior wife of King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo
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The Azanian People’s Organisation, founded in 1978, was inspired by the Black Consciousness Movement and merged three banned organisations: the Black People’s Convention (BPC), the South African Students’ Organisation (SASO) and the Black Community Programmes (BCP).
Chapter Thirteen: Away
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Frene Ginwala (1932–). Journalist and politician. Speaker of the National Assembly of South Africa, 1994–2000.
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Kweisi Mfume (1948–). Chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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Brian Mulroney (1939–). Prime minister of Canada, 1984–93.
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Pope John Paul II (1920–2005).
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Francesco Cossiga (1928–). President of the Italian Republic, 1985–92.
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In 1999, Mandela was appointed by the United Nations secretary-general as chief mediator of peace negotiations to bring an end to the civil war in Burundi between the Tutsis and the Hutus.
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Following the 1988 Lockerbie bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, in which 270 people were killed, Mandela mediated with Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to surrender Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi and his co-accused to the United Nations.
Chapter Fourteen: Home
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Eli Weinberg, see
People, Places and Events
.
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Sheila Weinberg (1945–2004). Anti-apartheid activist. Member of the ANC and Gauteng Legislature. Daughter of Eli Weinberg.
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Herman Andimba Toivo ja Toivo (1924–). Namibian freedom fighter, a South West African People’s Organisation (SWAPO) leader and political prisoner.
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Zephania Lekoame Mothopeng (1913–90). Political activist. President of the PAC.
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‘A Tree Was Chopped Down’ (Zindzi Mandela)
Abdurahman, Abdullah
Addis Ababa
Africa
African National Congress (ANC) and anti-apartheid movement; and Oliver Tambo; and police force; armed divisions; assault at Sebokeng; banned; Bantustan; consensus within; Dakar Conference; establishment and development; NM leadership of; NM early activities in; National Executive; NM tensions with; meets National Party; members in prison; principles; regional committee; violence in KwaZulu-Natal; Women’s League (ANCWL)
see also
Freedom Charter, Umkhonto we Sizwe, Youth League
African People’s Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB)
Aggett, Neil
Alexander, D B
Alexander, Neville
Alexandra (township)
Ali, Muhammad
Amadeus
(film)
Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers (London)
Anderson, Jeremy
Andreotti, Giulio (Prime Minister)
Annan, Kofi
Angola
Anne (Princess Royal)
Antigone
(Sophocles)
Arafat, Yasser
Arnold, Ayesha
As You Like It
(Shakespeare)
Astor, David
Asvat, Zainab
Aswad (band)
Austin, Michael (Father)
Autshumao (Khoikhoi)
Ayob, Ismail
Ayob, Zamila
Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO)
Balizulu, Nokwale (Chief)
Bambatha
Bangilizwe (Chief)
Bantustan Scheme
Barnard, Lukas (Niël)
Barratt, John
Beatrix (Queen)
Bella, (Ahmed) Ben
Benson, Mary
Bernstein, Hilda (née Schwarz)
Bernstein, Lionel (Rusty)
Bethell, Nicholas (Lord)
Bhala, Nomabutho
bin Laden, Osama
Bizos, George
Black As I Am
(Zindzi Mandela)
Black Consciousness Movement
Black Pimpernel (nickname given to NM)
Black Resistance Politics in South Africa
(Tom Lodge)
Boetie Gaan Border Toe
(film)
Born of the People
(Luis Taruk)
Botha, Pieter (Prime Minister)
Bradley, Shauna
Brahimi, Abdelhamid (Prime Minister)
Breytenbach, Breyten
Brutus, Dennis
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
(Dee Brown)
Bush, George H W (Snr) (President)
Bush, George W (Jnr) (President)
Buthelezi, Irene
Buthelezi, Mangosuthu (Chief)
Cachalia, Amina (née Asvat)
Cachalia, Ismail (Maulvi)
Cachalia, Yusuf
Carolus, Cheryl
Carter, Rosalynn
Castro, Fidel (President)
censorship
Cetywayo (Zulu)
Chapman, Tracy
Chiba, Isu (Laloo)
Chikane, Frank (Reverend)
Chissano, Joaquim (President)
Ciskei
Clarkebury Boarding Institute
Cliff, Jimmy
Clinton, William (Bill) (President)
Coetsee, Hendrik (Kobie)
Commando
(Deneys Reitz)
Commonwealth Conference
Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group
Communist Party
Congress Alliance
Congress of the People
Convention of the People
Cooper, Sathasivan (Saths)
Cossiga, Francesco (President)
Cox, Frank
Crockett, George (Jr)
Crystal Palace Bowl
Cyprian (Zulu)
Cungwa (Chief)
Dadoo, Yusuf
Dalasile, Zanengqele (Chief)
Dalindyebo, Buyelekhaya (King)
Dalindyebo, Cleopatra (Queen)
Dalindyebo, Jongintaba (Chief)
Dalindyebo, Noluntu (Queen)
Dalindyebo, Sabata (King)
Dalindyebo, Zwelibanzi (King)
Daliwonga
see
Kaiser Matanzima Daniels, Edward (Eddie)
Dash, Samuel
Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners
de Klerk, Frederik (State President)
Defiance Campaign Against Unjust Laws
Derby-Lewis, Clive
Dimbleby, Jonathan
Dube, John Langalibalele
Duncan, Sheena
Dwane, Sigqibo (Bishop)
Ekwueme, Alex (Vice-President)
Egypt
Electric Boogie
(film)
Elizabeth II (Queen)
Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW)
Fernandez, Antonio (Chief)
First, Ruth
Fischer, Abram (Bram)
Fischer, Molly (née Krige)
Foot, Michael
Fort Hare University
‘Free Nelson Mandela’ (Jerry Dammers)
Freedom Charter
Gaddafi, Muammar
Gaitskell, Hugh
Gandhi, Indira
Gandhi, Mohandas (Mahatma)
Ganyile, Anderson
Germany
Gerwel, Jakes
Gibson, Rex
Ginwala, Frene
Gogosoa (leader)
Goldberg, Denis
Goldreich, Arthur
Goldstone Commission and Report
Goniwe, Matthew
Gool, Zainunnisa (Cissie)
Goose Bay (Canada)
Goose, Gordon
Greeff, Johannes
Gregory, James
Gumede, Archie
Gwala, Mphephethe (Harry)
Hani, Tembisile (Chris)
Hardy, Barbara
Harmel, Michael
Haroon, Imam
Harry the Strandloper
see
Autshumao
Hartzenberg, Ferdinand
Healey, Denis
Hendrickse, Allan
Hepple, Bob
Heyns, Johan
Hodgson, Jack
Holomisa, Phathekile (Chief)
Huddleston, Trevor (Archbishop)
Hukbalahap
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
(Maya Angelou)
Ireland
Irish Republican Army (IRA)
Jabavu, Davidson
Jabavu, John
Jassat, Abdulhay
Johanson, Brian (Reverend)
Johannesburg International Club
Jones, Jack
Joseph, Benjamin
Joseph, Helen (née Fennell)
Joyi (Chief)
ka Senzangakhona, Shaka (King)
ka Zulu, Zwelithini (King)
Kantor, James
Kasrils, Ronnie
Kathrada, Ahmed biography; conversations with NM; implicated in betraying NM; Pollsmoor Prison; Robben Island prison; works with NM
Kaunda, Kenneth (President)
Kearnsley College
Kelly, Michael (Lord Provost)
Kentridge, Felicity
Kemp, JCG
Khama, Seretse (Sir)
Khawudle (Chief)
Kinnock, Neil
Kirkwood, Mike
Kotane, Moses
Kruger, James (Jimmy)
Kruger National Park
Langenhoven, C J
language
le Grange, Louis
Lee, Canada
Legum, Colin
Letsie III (King)
Liberal Party
Liliesleaf Farm
Lockerbie bombing
London
Lukhele, Douglas
Luthuli, Albert (Chief)
Mabuna, Nelson
Mabuza, Lindi
Machel, Graça (née Simbine)
Machel, Samora (President)
Macmillan, Harold (Prime Minister)
Madiba (NM’s clan name)
Madikizela, Nonyaniso
Madikizela, NoPhikela
Madikizela, Nonyaniso
Maharaj, Satyandranath (Mac)
Maharaj, Tim
Mahlangu, Solomon
Mahomed, Ismail
Mai Mai Market
Makwetu, Clarence
Malefane, M K
Malefane, Zondwa
Mampuru (Pedis)
Mandela, Alexander
Mandela, Dumani
Mandela, Evelyn (née Mase)
Mandela, Madiba Thembekile (Thembi)
Mandela, Makaziwe (NM’s first daughter)
Mandela, Makaziwe (Maki)
Mandela, Makgatho (Kgatho)
Mandela, Nandi
Mandela, Ndileka
Mandela, Nelson
Awards Burgess Ticket; Jawaharlal Nehru; Order of Playa Giron (Bay of Pigs); New York City College; Nobel Peace Prize; Sakharov; University of Brussels
Childhood and education at Fort Hare university; at University of the Witwatersrand; at Wesleyan College (Healdtown); classical works; early schooling; importance of education; studying in prison
Health blackouts; blood in urine; blood pressure; cardiac checks; cholesterol; diet; eye infection; eyesight damaged; examinations; fasting; health farm; kidney damage diagnosed; meditation; physiotherapy; pneumonia; prostate; rumours; sciatica; surgery; tuberculosis; weight
Names Black Pimpernel; David Motsamayi (adopted name while underground); Madiba (clan name)
Non-political work stage acting; as a lawyer; travel
Personal and family life adulthood; birthplace; birth of Makaziwe (first daughter); birth of Makgatho; birth of Thembi; birth of Zenani; birth of Zindziswa; boxing; childhood; circumcision; death of Makaziwe; death of Thembi; divorcing Evelyn; divorcing Winnie; early years; father; forced marriage; friendship; grandchildren; house bombed; lack of time for family; marriage to Evelyn; meets Graça; mother; pines for family while in prison; prison visits; relationship with Winnie; separation from Winnie; sexuality; sisters; worries that family penalised;
see also
names of family members
Personal characteristics ambition; clothing and appearance; attitude to death penalty; charisma; compassion; curiosity; dignity; discipline; dreams; endurance; family man; forgiveness; good memory; heroism; inclusiveness; insight; inspiration; love of gardening; love of literature; love of music; loyalty; moral integrity; opportunism; patriotism; perseverance; persuasiveness; practicality; regrets; religious beliefs; respect for environment; romantic; self-deprecation; sense of duty; sense of fairness; sense of humour; sociability; too trusting; vision; workaholic
Political activism Defiance Campaign; ANC Youth League; arrest; banning orders; Bantu Education Act; boycotts; guerrilla warfare; interfering in personal life; imprisonment; military training; petitions for release; police raids; represents prisoners; solidarity; Rivonia Trial; tactics; television; Treason Trial; Umkhonto we Sizwe; underground;
see also
freedom fighting
Political career, post-prison AIDS; Burundi Peace Process; Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA); discusses nationalism; elected president; negotiations with South African government; NM notes from first session as president; period following release; political violence; proposal to reduce voting age; tour to Canada; tour to Egypt; tour to Europe; tour to Kenya, Uganda and Mozambique; tour to US; understanding governmental security intelligence
Political views assassination; Bantustans; chieftainship; church; communism; colonisation; cultural influence on; democracy; economy; elections; equality; freedom; freedom fighting; government; historical context; imperialism, leadership; nonracialism; non-violence; on monarchy; propaganda; racism; response of younger generation; sacrifice; separatism; traditional background; treason; war; Western influence; women;
see also
censorship
Speeches abandoned; after assassination of Chris Hani; at Sebokeng; at Sophiatown; at end of Rivonia Trial; style; on Winnie’s ‘necklacing’ speech
Writing desk calendars; diary (1962); habits;
Long Walk to Freedom
; notebook (1962); notebooks and personal papers (miscellany); prison letters; proposes talks between ANC and government; smuggled letter to lawyers in Durban (1977); to Graça Machel; transcriptions; translations of; unpublished autobiographical manuscript written in prison; unpublished sequel to autobiography
Mandela, Nkosi Mphakanyiswa Gadla
Mandela, Nosekeni (Fanny)
Mandela, Thoko
Mandela, Winnie (Madikizela-Mandela, Nomzamo Winifred) arrest; at Baragwanath Hospital; at Pretoria Prison; banning orders; biography; birth of Zenani; birth of Zindziswa; deportation; detained under Terrorism Act; hospitalised after car crash; imprisonment; letters from NM; marriage to NM; miscarriage; necklacing; police harassment of; receives death threats; relationship with NM; restrictions on; separation from NM; temper; visits NM in prison
Mandela, Zenani (Zeni)
Mandela, Zindziswa (Zindzi)
Mangaliso, Ndamase (King)
Manhattan Brothers (band)
Maori
Maqoma (Rharhabe)
Marks, John (J B)
Marxism
see
Communist Party
Masekela, Barbara
Masekela, Hugh
Masemola, Jafta (Jeff)
Mashiri, Clifford
Masire, Quett (President)
Masololi, Jerry
Matanzima, Kaiser (K D) names (Daliwonga), (Wonga); biography; meets NM; divergent views; letters from NM; works with NM; visits NM in prison;
Matanzima, Mafu
Matthews, Frieda (née Bokwe)
Matthews, Zachariah (Z K)
Matyolo, Reverend
Mbeki, Govan (Zizi)
Mbeki, Thabo (President)
Meer, Fatima
Meer, Shenaz
Meiring, Georg (General)
Methodist Church
Mfume, Kweisi
Mhlaba, Raymond (Ndobe)
Miller, Arthur
Missing
(film)
Mitchell’s Plain
Mitterrand, François (President)
MK
see
ANC armed divisions, Umkhonto we Sizwe
Mkwayi, Nolusapho
Mkwayi, Wilton (Bri Bri)
Mlangeni, Andrew (Mpandla)
Mngoma, John
Mnqanqeni (Chief)
Mogoerane, Simon
Mohamad, Mahathir (Prime Minister)
Moi, Daniel (Arap) (President)
Moise, David
Mokoena, Harry
Molefe, Petrus
Molete, Zachariah
Molotsi, Johannes
Mompati, Ruth
Montane, Jesus
Moolla, Moosa (Mosie)
Morobe, Murphy
Moroka, James
Mosieloa, Joy