Word: mandelas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time a gold-colored BMW drove up to the stadium. But the remaining 8,000 or so people quickly recognized the woman who emerged from the car, and they escorted her into the stadium shouting, "Winnie! Winnie! Mother of the nation!" To their surprise and pleasure, Winnie Mandela, wife of jailed A.N.C. Leader Nelson Mandela, addressed the crowd. "This is our country," she told them. "As you have had to bury our children today, so shall the blood of these heroes be avenged...
With that, Mandela, 51, defied the government restriction that has forbidden her to speak in public for nearly 25 years. A leading antiapartheid activist in her own right, Mandela has endured arrests and solitary confinement. She was banished eight years ago to Brandfort, a remote area of the Orange Free State. But since her home was firebombed by unidentified arsonists in August, she has become increasingly defiant, leaving Brandfort without permission, traveling throughout the country and meeting with the press...
...Nelson Mandela was imprisoned in 1964 for plotting violent resistance to the South African government. Last year, responding to mounting domestic and international pressures, the government offered him his freedom on the condition that he renounce political violence. Mandela held a one sentence press conference and returned to captivity. His message: "Let them first renounce violence...
Following the execution, Mamike Moloise, 53, complained bitterly that she had been denied the opportunity to visit her son on the day of his death. "I begged," said the bereaved mother, who waited outside the prison gates accompanied by, among others, Winnie Mandela, wife of jailed A.N.C. Leader Nelson Mandela. "I said, 'It's the last time. That's my son.' This government is cruel. It is really, really cruel." Mrs. Moloise was later permitted to see her son's unopened coffin, but his body will remain the property of the state and will be buried inside the prison...
...doomed." In an interview with the New York Times, he argued that apartheid "is not only wrong in our view, but, at least in my judgment, it is over." Shultz encouraged the South African government to "signal" its willingness to negotiate with blacks by releasing imprisoned A.N.C. Leader Nelson Mandela...