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MR BHEQESI: On the release of comrade Nelson Mandela in 1990 and the unbanning of all political organisations we here in Gobozane, we also saw ourselves involved highly in the struggle. This started by showing unity here in Gobozane. We were all members of the ANC National Congress. EAST LONDON ...

We received a message through the two-way radio. The message was from Mandela sectoin that they needed some assistance, and there was our own secret code of calling upon each other for assistance. We were able to call other members of the SDU. We gathered, there were quite a number of us, we ...

... where you would understand that there are forces at work deeper, and which affect everybody, whether it be P W Botha, Alwyn Schlebusch, PW, FW, Mandela. All of us we are in the same pot. And then you can devise how you are going to do it. You can't gather the whole South Africa at one place. ...

MR THOABALA: In 1983 I joined the UDF, United Democratic Front and Release Mandela Campaign until I left the country and joined the RMC.

We took some few days going up and down together with the ANC. After getting to a conclusion on the third day they organised a meeting with Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu, where we met these people. Mr Mandela and Mr Sisulu gave us a solution, but they also asked us a question how are we ...

... they followed us to our homes. Time went on until 1990. There was some change to us, and also other members of the UDF. That was the time Nelson Mandela was released. I think that was the time people began to realise the truth, and they all turned to become members of the UDF. ...

... Constand Viljoen as well as the Conservative Party. All of these organisations put their positions to Minister Dullah Omar and President Mandela, I can't say exactly who was involved with these ...

... Hospital. At Baragwanath I had some problems because there was one doctor from South America. He was harassing me, telling me that I am Mr Mandela's terrorist. I had to ask for a transfer to go back to Hillbrow hospital because of the harassment that I experienced at Baragwanath ...

... between the erstwhile National Party Government and the ANC. The assassination sparked off violence in may parts of the country. President Nelson Mandela made a public appeal to all members and supporters of his organisation, the ANC, to refrain from taking any steps in retaliation to the ...

After some time, when he was a little bit better I asked him what actually took place. They said they had been sent by Mr Mandela to beat us, because we are ANC, then they must beat us, they must beat us. They must take us, they must put us in the bags and throw us in the place where you will ...

the work of mobilising the religious community in South Africa and internationally to applause apartheid as an issue of faith. Now 1990 came Nelson Mandela was released, the political organisations of the people were un-banned but I forgot the say that when the Zimbabwean Government said that ...

room there, which we accepted because I mean, if you’re not used to standing in the sun, you know you can suffer a little but and anyway I recall Mr Mandela speaking of a Reverend Harris that taught him at a Missionary , Mr, Reverend Harris was a ...

MR VAN ROOYEN: When we arrived at Bekkersdal, we went to Mandela Section. That is where I knew comrade Bazuka who was the President of the ANC Youth League at that time in Mandela Section.

"An excellent example of how the propaganda came through to all forms of the government can be found in the book of President Mandela: 'Long Walk to Freedom', on page 405, where President Mandela himself says

MR DU PLESSIS: Mrs O'Laughlin, well let me not belabour this point. All I want to put to you is, or let me just ask you this one question, would you accept Mr Nelson Mandela, President Nelson Mandela as a person who would be able to identify the people who were leaders of the struggle?

This other Adjudant Vorster said to me you, the children of Mandela, do not know what you want. You see already, Mandela is already dead. He is not even going to leave for two years, he is a dead man. What do you want after him? He said you are going to die in this prison. He said I am not ...

... tea for them. I use to regard them as my brothers and sisters. They said to me one day, we know that you are a politician, what do you know about Mandela? I said, I do not even know Mandela, who is that? The only thing that I know about Mandela is that he is a person who is arrested. He is ...

... because he said he had known my brother. We had many other people who paid respects at the home during that stage. We have had in October 1990, Mr Mandela paid his respects as well, but he didn't have the opportunity of coming to our home. We had to meet him privately at his Yusuf Aqiyo's ...

... Exhibit M, where she is not referred to as First, and her descriptions, descriptions of her in Gillian's book, Gillian's video tape and President Mandela's address to the 50th National Congress of the ANC, Exhibit KK, at best for the opponents to the amnesty applications, Ruth First, was a ...

            "Disrupted the UDF's "One Million Signature" campaign for the release of Nelson Mandela as follows :  Uniform police were deployed at or nearby signature collection points to discourage the public from signing.  The organisers (Chief organiser on the main day was Dave Webster) ...