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...true that the masses of the South African people probably don't know what corporations are, but give a leader 20 minutes of free speech, which they haven't got at the moment, and the people will want withdrawal. Go to the leaders: what have [Nelson] Mandela, [Robert] Sobukwe, [Albert] Luthuli, and Biko said? What they have said is what the people will unswervingly want. What they have said is that they want foreign corporations out of their country...
This year, May Day has particular significance for our brothers and sisters in southern Africa. We should pause for a moment and think of Nelson Mandela, the black South African leader, sitting in his jail cell, in the 15th consecutive year of his imprisonment, and of the all-too-many people who are jailed with...
...life imprisonment or executed under the Sabotage and Suppression of Communism Acts, which define any attempt to change the status quo as "communist." Under such laws, the African National Congress of South Africa--the party of national liberation--was outlawed in 1960, and many opposition leaders--among them Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu and Bram Fischer--sent to jail for life...
Unlike many South Africans prosecuted under the country's catch-all subversion law, Fischer made the government's case easy. He admitted being a Communist. Over the years, he defended a string of Communists and black nationalists accused of treason, including Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu, who were sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964 for planning a series of bombings and a Red Chinese-style "war of liberation." Three months after Mandela and Sisulu were convicted, Fischer was arrested as an accomplice. He then jumped a $14,000 bond and went into hiding - growing a goatee, dyeing...
Black, Not Red. Umkonto Leader Mandela, once a celebrated Johannesburg boxer, admitted planning sabotage but insisted that he acted as a black, not a Red. His inspiration, he argued, had come not from Moscow or Peking but from the Zulu and Xhosa chieftains who fought long and skillfully against the technologically superior Boers a century ago. "This," he said in a dramatic peroration from the dock, "is the struggle of the African people, inspired by their own suffering and experience. It is a struggle for the right to live. I have cherished the ideal of a demo cratic and free...