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...more than 15 months, top man on the South African police wanted list has been a black underground leader named Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela. Son of the paramount chief of the Tembu tribe...
...Lawyer Mandela, 44, was sought by the white cops for helping to organize the mass work stoppage by Africans in May 1961 to protest apartheid and the proclamation of South Africa as a republic...
Special Branch (political) police searched for him everywhere, regularly swooped on his dowdy little home in Orlando township, searched bus stations and railway terminals. But towering (6 ft. 2 in., 245 Ibs.), affable Nelson Mandela sped from one hideout to another. Often he telephoned newspapers with defiant statements against the government; once he even gave a television interview to the BBC. Last February he traveled to a Pan-African congress in Addis Ababa and returned unnoticed...
Many of the black leaders, including Nelson Mandela, 42, head of the underground movement, managed to escape the police pickup vans. But as the police had hoped, the leaders were forced into such deep concealment that they lost touch with their black following. Thus, when the strike deadline arrived, confused native office boys, waiters and messengers went to their jobs on schedule almost everywhere. One-third of Johannesburg's black work force stayed at home the first day, halting grocers' deliveries and causing white restaurant managers to suffer the indignity of washing their own dishes; but by next...
...racist government. Placards popped up on lampposts and shop walls. "Awupatwa" (Don't touch the job) declared the signs in Zulu. "General strike May 29, 30, 31." For the first time, black leaders had strong backing from both the Indian and colored (mulatto) communities. African Ringleader Nelson Mandela, 42, darted secretly from town to town, coordinating plans for the nationwide walkout...