Conversations with Myself (2010) (edit title/settings)

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• Nelson Mandela: Add a description of this character.
• Ahmed Kathrada
• Winnie Mandela
• Zindzi
• Zeni
• Walter Sisulu
• Oliver Tambo
• Isitwalandwe Seaparankoe
• Mummy
• Maki
• Thembi
• Dr Stock
• Ruth
• Botha
• Chris Hani
• Maharaj
• Evelyn
• Raymond Mhlaba
• Makaziwe
• Swanepoel
• De Klerk
• Thabo Mbeki
• Matanzima
• George
• Zenani
• Victor Verster
• Makgatho
• Madiba
• Andrew Mlangeni
• Albert Luthuli
• Albertina Sisulu
• Barnard
• Michael Harmel
• Kobie Coetsee
• Gra
• Govan Mbeki
• Motsoaledi
• Bernstein

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• “The ideals we cherish, our fondest dreams and fervent hopes may not be realized in our lifetime. But that is besides the point. The knowledge that in your day you did your duty, and lived up to the expectation of your fellow men is in itself a rewarding experience and magnificent achievement.”

  Nelson Mandela

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• Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly, but nevertheless state them openly.

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• ‘Don’t run away from your problems; face them! Because if you don’t deal with them, they will always be with you. Deal with a problem which arises; face it courageously.’

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• Through his choices, Mandela made it clear that we did not have to accept the world as it is – that we could do our part to seek the world as it should be.

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• I came to accept that I have no right whatsoever to judge others in terms of my own customs, however much I may be proud of such customs;3 that to despise others because they have not observed particular customs is a dangerous form of chauvinism.

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• ‘In real life we deal, not with gods, but with ordinary humans like ourselves: men and women who are full of contradictions, who are stable and fickle, strong and weak, famous and infamous, people in whose bloodstream the muckworm battles daily with potent pesticides.’

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• MANDELA:…You see criticism must be dignified. We must be factual, we must be realistic, we must be honest, but at the same time, you know, within a certain frame because we are builders…

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• Indeed, ‘the chains of the body are often wings to the spirit’.

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• I sometimes believe that through me Creation intended to give the world the example of a mediocre man in the proper sense of the term.

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• By offering us this full portrait, Nelson Mandela reminds us that he has not been a perfect man. Like all of us, he has his flaws. But it is precisely those imperfections that should inspire each and every one of us. For if we are honest with ourselves, we know that we all face struggles that are large and small, personal and political – to overcome fear and doubt; to keep working when the outcome of our struggle is not certain; to forgive others and to challenge ourselves.

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• A literate corps of educated traditional leaders would in all probability accept the democratic process. The inferiority complex which makes many of them to cling desperately to feudal forms of administration would, in due course, disappear.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• South Africans
• Johannesburg
• Robben Island
• Transkei
• London
• Rivonia Trial
• Cape Town
• Long Walk
• Mozambique
• Umkhonto
• Pollsmoor Prison
• Morocco
• Uk
• Durban
• Soweto
• Algeria
• Pretoria
• Botswana
• Cachalia
• Afrikaans
• Maputo
• Ethiopia
• Zambia
• Fort Hare
• Sebokeng
• China
• Tanzania
• Swaziland
• England
• Egypt
• Lesotho
• Kenya
• Oujda
• Tunisia
• Monrovia
• Bechuanaland
• Liliesleaf Farm
• Rome
• Baragwanath Hospital

Organizations edit see section history

• All African Convention (AAC): Add a description of this organization.
• African National Congress (ANC): Established as the South African Native National Congress (SANNC) in 1912. Renamed African National Congress (ANC) in 1923. Following the Sharpeville Massacre in March 1960, the ANC was banned by the South African government and went underground until the ban was lifted in 1990. Its military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), was established in 1961, with Mandela as commander-in-chief. The ANC became South Africa's governing party after the nation's first democratic eletions on 27 April 1994.
• African National Congress Women's League (ANCWL): Established in 1948. Actively involved in the 1952 Defiance Campaign in the antipass campaigns.
• African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL): Founded in 1944 by Nelson Mandela, Anton Lembede, Walter Sisulu, A P Mda and Oliver Tambo as a reaction to the ANC's more conservative outlook. Its activities included civil disobedience and strikes in protest against the apartheid system. Many members left and formed the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) in 1959. Banned between 1960 and 1990.
• African People's Democratic Union of Southern Africa: Formed in 1961 to champion the rights of the oppressed rural peasant classes and urban working classes and to politically educate them. Affiliated to the Non-European Unity Movement (NEUM) and the All-African Convention (AAC). Led by Tabata Isaac Bangani.
• Congress of Democrats (COD)
• Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
• Coloured People's Congress
• Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA)
• Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW)
• Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP)
• Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK): Umkhonto we Sizwe, meaning 'spear of the nation', was founded in 1961 and is commonly known by the abbreviation MK. Nelson Mandela was its first commander-in-chief. It became the military wing of the ANC. After the 1994 elections MK was disbanded and its soldiers incorporated into the newly formed South African National Defense Force (SANDF) with soldiers from the apartheid South African Defense Force, Bantusan defence forces, IFP's self protection units and Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA), the military wing of the PAC.
• Non-European United Front (NEUF)
• Non-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
• Natal Indian Congress (NIC)
• Pan-African Congress: Breakaway organization of the ANC founded in 1959 by Robert Sobukwe, who championed the philosophy of 'Africa for Africans'. The PAC's campaigns included a nationwide protest against pass laws, ten days before the ANC was to start its own campaign. It culminated in the Sharpenville Massacre on 21 March 1960, in which police shot dead sixty-nine unarmed protestors. Banned, along with the ANC, in April 1960. Unbanned on 2 February 1990.
• South African Indian Congress
• South African Native Natal Congress: After 1923 the African National Congress (ANC)
• Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
• United Democratic Front (UDF)

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1. Nelson Mandela (Author)

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• Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Leaders & Notable People › Presidents & Heads of State

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