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Dressed in the yellow T shirt of the United Democratic Front, a rapidly growing antiapartheid movement, Zindzi Mandela, 25, at the side of Johannesburg's Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu, stood silently for a moment in Soweto's Jabulani Stadium. Then she began to read to the 9,000 people gathered before her a message prepared by her father, Nelson Mandela, in his prison cell. "I cannot and will not give any undertaking at a time when I and you, the people, are not free," Mandela, South Africa's best-known black activist, said in his statement. "Only free...
Thus, nearly 21 years after he was imprisoned on charges of sabotage and subversion, the former head of the outlawed African National Congress rejected a conditional offer of freedom by the white minority government of Executive President P.W. Botha. Instead, Mandela, 67, seized the opportunity to outline his own demands. The South African government, he declared in his message, must renounce violence, dismantle apartheid, lift its ban on the A.N.C., free those imprisoned or banished for their opposition to apartheid, and guarantee black South Africans the right to choose their leaders...
...people, aside from his family, had heard anything from or of Mandela during the first two decades of his imprisonment. Then, beginning ten months ago, the authorities relaxed visiting and other restrictions against him, permitted an interview by a British politician and allowed the conversation to be published in the South African press. "The armed struggle (with the authorities) was forced on us by the government," Mandela said in the % interview. "If they want to give it up, the ball is in their court...
...Every investment is a prison bar holding Nelson Mandela," said Jackson, refering to the leader of the African National Congress imprisoned in South Africa since...
...Stephen Biko and Bishop Luthuli did in their whole lifetimes? Does he think he has more experience in the matter than Bishop Tutu, who last month said in Memorial Church that investing in torture and the wholesale destruction of black family life? Are we to believe that if Nelson Mandela, the leader of the African National Congress who has been imprisoned on an island for twenty years, would just take a break from the rockpile and think as much as Derek Bok has about South Africa, the ANC would stop demanding that Harvard divest? These are Bok's critics...