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Units

Unit 1. Introduction
Unit 4. Protest and Resistance through the Rivonia Trial (1964)
Unit 5. Reigniting the Struggle - The 1970s through the Release of Nelson Mandela
Unit 6. The End of Apartheid and the Birth of Democracy
Unit 7. Exploring the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Unit 8. Building Democracy After Apartheid

Essays

Bantu Education
Detentions without Trial during the Apartheid Era
Truth Commissions and Interpretations of Violence

Multimedia Resources

Rivonia Trial
International Solidarity Movement
Nelson Mandela's Release from Prison

Video and Audio Interviews

"Whenever VIPs came to see Mr. Mandela, he would report back to the ANC and then he would make a special point of reporting back to me individually."
Video interview with Eddie Daniels - Political Prisoners [5:03]
"Walter and Madiba said to me that we have a responsibility, that these people, just as much as we, were victims of apartheid."
Video interview with Laloo Chiba - African National Congress (ANC) [3:06]
"Kathy [Ahmed Kathrada] actually made a suggestion to Walter and Madiba that Madiba should secretly write his autobiography, smuggle it out of prison."
Video interview with Laloo Chiba - African National Congress (ANC) [4:44]
"We waited for hours and hours and hours on the Grand Parade, and it was boiling hot, but it didn't matter..."
Video interview with Stanley John Abrahams - Release of Nelson Mandela [3:07]
"The release of Mandela ... was the last of the indications that we are there."
Video interview with Roseberry Sonto - Release of Nelson Mandela [1:38]
"... many of those who look to him as a leader have never heard him, have never seen him..."
Video interview with Desmond Tutu - African National Congress (ANC), Political Prisoners [1:00]
"The State wanted to actually bottle us up, thinking that the struggle will die out..."
Freedom Charter, Treason Trial [4:36]

Video footage

"We expect you to give our leader a rousing welcome."
Clip - Video Footage Community Video Education Trust (CVET). Segment about Release of Nelson Mandela [3:01]
"Amandla / awethu!" "We are still trying to organize a stadium where he will speak."
Clip - Video Footage Community Video Education Trust (CVET). Segment about Release of Nelson Mandela [4:06]
"Please bear in mind, comrades, that not everybody will be able to sit in the front rows ..."
Clip - Video Footage Community Video Education Trust (CVET). Segment about Release of Nelson Mandela [5:12]

Images

"AIDS Benefit Concert Cape Town" (Other)
By Philippine Molope, Mapula Embroidery Project. 2005
Fourth anniversary of April 1994 election (Political Art)
By William Makhubele designer; Jane Masala Makhubele and/or Ellen Makhubele, beadworkers (Shangaan). 1998
Nelson Mandela casting his vote in April, 1994 (Photograph)
By UN Photo by C. Sattleberger. 1994
President Mandela's Inauguration (Photograph)
By DPI / UN Photo. May 10, 1994
"Apartheid is enough to turn any civilized human being into a political prisoner" (Political Art)
From African Activist Archive.
"Free Mandela" (Political Art)
From African Activist Archive.
Treason Trial Gallery (Photograph)
From South African History Online.

Documents

Robben Island prisoners' holiday card order list (Historical Document)

1994 - Mandela Becomes President (Report)

Campaign of Defiance against Unjust Laws - Document Collection (Historical Document)

Congress of the People (Resource)

Nelson Mandela's Address to Rally in Cape Town on His Release from Prison (Speech)
By Nelson Mandela
Robben Island: The Dark Years, Long Walk to Freedom (Book Chapter/Excerpt)
By Nelson Mandela
Statement by President Nelson Mandela on Receiving the Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Pretoria (Speech)
By Nelson Mandela
Toward Robben Island: The Rivonia Trial, From Protest to Challenge: A Documentary History of South African Politics in South Africa, 1882-1964., Volume 3 (Book Chapter/Excerpt)
By Gail M. Gerhart and Thomas Karis
Transkei Re-Visited, Liberation (Journal Article)
By Nelson Mandela
Interview with Strini Moodley, PBS Frontline (Interview)
By Strini Moodley
'The struggle is my life': Press Statement Issued on 26 June 1961 (Historical Document)
By Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela Released (Resource)

Nelson Mandela's Testimony at the Treason Trial 1956-60 (Testimony)
By Nelson Mandela
Interview with Neville Alexander, PBS Frontline (Interview)
By Neville Alexander

Websites

"I am Prepared to Die": Nelson Mandela's statement from the dock at the opening of the defence case in the Rivonia Trial: Pretoria Supreme Court, 20 April 1964
Country Profile: South Africa
Mandela: An Audio History
The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela