The Mandela Revolution
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The Mandela Revolution
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Author : Huw Lawford
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
Release Date : 2022-01-28
The Mandela Revolution written by Huw Lawford and has been published by Pen and Sword Military this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-28 with History categories.
On 27 April 1994 South Africa went to the polls and delivered the first black government in the country’s history. This was the Mandela Revolution. This is not the story of how the Rainbow Nation was formed, but it tells a story of one part of the revolution; a vital part, that had to occur to give legitimacy to the new South Africa both at home and abroad. It highlights the political necessity that drove a process and the seemingly inevitable failure that it became. Not a failure of the process itself, but a failure that had to occur to permit acceptability; it resulted in the end of South Africa as a hegemony. This account focuses on how the military forces supporting the Apartheid regime and those committed to its overthrow came together to form a new national force, reflecting the new multi-racial, multi-faith democracy. The process appeared unacceptable in some measure to all sides, but the political instruction in 1994 was that there was to be the integration of the South African defense Force and the armed wings of the African National Congress and the Pan Africanist Congress to form the South African National defense Force. Within this revolution, there was a small detachment from the British armed forces that were charged with assisting this transition. They were required to oversee and assist a process that had never been done before and often had to operate alone. It is a story of highs and lows, of sudden death, breakdowns and ultimately of hope. This is a personal account of three years spent in the middle of this staggering transitional experiment. It was Security Sector Reform and Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) before such processes were coined by the United Nations and arguably it was considerably more successful than any such venture attempted by the United Nations. It is a book that demonstrates how success and failure can occur simultaneously.
Young Mandela
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Author : David James Smith
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-12-06
Young Mandela written by David James Smith and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Nelson Mandela is well-known throughout the world as a heroic leader who symbolizes freedom and moral authority. He is fixed in the public mind as the world's elder statesman -- the gray-haired man with a kindly smile who spent 27 years in prison before becoming the first black president in South Africa. But Nelson Mandela was not always elderly or benign. And, in Young Mandela, award-winning journalist and author David James Smith takes us deep into the heart of racist South Africa to paint a portrait of the Mandela that many have forgotten: the committed revolutionary who left his family behind to live on the run, adopting false names and disguises and organizing the first strikes to overthrow the apartheid state. Young Mandela lifts the curtain on an icon's first steps to greatness.
Nelson Mandela
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Author : Diane Dakers
language : en
Publisher: Crabtree Groundbreaker Biograp
Release Date : 2014
Nelson Mandela written by Diane Dakers and has been published by Crabtree Groundbreaker Biograp this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
A biography of the South African leader, focusing on his struggle to overthrow the tyrannies of apartheid.
When Mandela Goes
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Author : Lester Venter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
When Mandela Goes written by Lester Venter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Politics and government categories.
Nelson Mandela
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Author : Beatrice Gormley
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2015-04-07
Nelson Mandela written by Beatrice Gormley and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-07 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of what it takes to change the world in this comprehensive biography that tells the complete life story of internationally renowned peacemaker Nelson Mandela. Civil rights activist. World leader. Philanthropist. Writer. Throughout his life, Nelson Mandela took on many roles, all in the pursuit of peace. Born in 1918 in South Africa, he grew up in a culture of government-enforced racism and became involved in the anti-apartheid movement at a young age. Deeply committed to nonviolent activism, Mandela directed a peaceful campaign against the racist policies of his South African government, and spent twenty-seven years in prison as a result. In the years following his emergence as a free man, he continued his efforts to dismantle the country’s apartheid system and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize alongside South African President F.W. de Klerk. In 1994 he was inaugurated as South Africa’s first black president and served until his retirement from active politics in 1999 at the age of eighty-one. He continued to promote global peace until his death in 2013, and his legacy lives on. From Nelson Mandela’s childhood to his monumental impact on race relations and nonviolent activism, this comprehensive biography shares the truth about the man behind the iconic smile: his struggles, his triumphs, and the sacrifices he made along the way.
Nelson Mandela
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Author : S. E. M. Pheko
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Nelson Mandela written by S. E. M. Pheko and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Democracy categories.
Spear
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Author : Paul S. Landau
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2022-06-07
Spear written by Paul S. Landau and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-07 with History categories.
A revelatory and definitive account of how Nelson Mandela and his peers led South Africa to the brink of revolution against the postwar twentieth century’s most infamously racist regime. Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries brings to life the brief revolutionary period in which Nelson Mandela and his comrades fought apartheid not just with words but also with violence. After the 1960 Sharpeville police shootings of civilian protesters, Mandela and his comrades in the mass-resistance order of the African National Congress (ANC) and the Communist Party pioneered the use of force and formed Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), or Spear of the Nation. A civilian-based militia, MK stockpiled weapons and waged a war of sabotage against the state with pipe bombs, Molotov cocktails, and dynamite. In response, the state passed draconian laws, militarized its police, and imprisoned its enemies without trial. Drawing from several hundred first-person accounts, most of which are unpublished, Paul Landau traces Mandela’s allies—and opponents—in communist, pan-Africanist, liberal, and other groups involved in escalating resistance alongside the ANC. After Mandela’s capture, the Pan Africanist Congress planned to initiate street violence, and MK organized Operation Mayibuye, an uprising to be led by trained commandos. The state short-circuited those plans and subsequently jailed, exiled, tortured, and murdered revolutionaries. The era of high apartheid then began. Spear reshapes our understanding of Mandela by focusing on this intense but relatively neglected period of escalation in the movement against apartheid. Landau’s book is not a biography, nor is it a history of a militia or an army; rather, it is a riveting story about ordinary civilians debating and acting together in extremis. Contextualizing Mandela and MK’s activities amid anticolonial change and Black Marxism in the early 1960s, Spear also speaks to today’s transnational antiracism protests and worldwide struggles against oppression.
Nelson Mandela
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Author : S. E. M.. Pheko
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Nelson Mandela written by S. E. M.. Pheko and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with South Africa categories.
Nelson Mandela And The Wind Of Change
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Author : Gabriel Lohodedoo Burya
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Nelson Mandela And The Wind Of Change written by Gabriel Lohodedoo Burya and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Anti-apartheid movements categories.
The End Of Apartheid
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Author : Robin Renwick
language : en
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Release Date : 2015-01-29
The End Of Apartheid written by Robin Renwick and has been published by Biteback Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-29 with History categories.
In 2 February 1990, FW de Klerk made a speech that changed the history of South Africa. Nine days later, the world watched as Nelson Mandela walked free from the Viktor Verster prison. In the midst of these events was Lord Renwick, Margaret Thatcher's envoy to South Africa, who became a personal friend of Nelson Mandela, FW de Klerk and Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, acting as a trusted intermediary between them. He warned PW Botha against military attacks on neighbouring countries, in meetings he likens to 'calling on the führer in his bunker'. He invited Mandela to his first meal in a restaurant for twenty-seven years, rehearsing him for his meeting with Margaret Thatcher - and told Thatcher that she must not interrupt him. Their discussion went on so long that the British press in Downing Street started chanting 'Free Nelson Mandela'.In this extraordinary insider's account, Renwick draws on his diaries of the time, as well as previously unpublished material from the Foreign Office and Downing Street files. He paints a vivid, affectionate, real-life portrait of Mandela as a wily and resourceful political leader bent on out-manoeuvring both adversaries and some of his own colleagues in pursuit of a peaceful outcome.