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by Nelson Mandela


  Chapter Fourteen: Home

  1. Eli Weinberg, see People, Places and Events.

  2. Sheila Weinberg (1945–2004). Anti-apartheid activist. Member of the ANC and Gauteng Legislature. Daughter of Eli Weinberg.

  3. Herman Andimba Toivo ja Toivo (1924–). Namibian freedom fighter, a South West African People’s Organisation (SWAPO) leader and political prisoner.

  4. Zephania Lekoame Mothopeng (1913–90). Political activist. President of the PAC.

  Index

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  ‘A Tree Was Chopped Down’ (Zindzi Mandela)

  Abdurahman, Abdullah

  Addis Ababa

  Africa

  African National Congress (ANC) and anti-apartheid movement; and Oliver Tambo; and police force; armed divisions; assault at Sebokeng; banned; Bantustan; consensus within; Dakar Conference; establishment and development; NM leadership of; NM early activities in; National Executive; NM tensions with; meets National Party; members in prison; principles; regional committee; violence in KwaZulu-Natal; Women’s League (ANCWL) see also Freedom Charter, Umkhonto we Sizwe, Youth League

  African People’s Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)

  Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB)

  Aggett, Neil

  Alexander, D B

  Alexander, Neville

  Alexandra (township)

  Ali, Muhammad

  Amadeus (film)

  Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers (London)

  Anderson, Jeremy

  Andreotti, Giulio (Prime Minister)

  Annan, Kofi

  Angola

  Anne (Princess Royal)

  Antigone (Sophocles)

  Arafat, Yasser

  Arnold, Ayesha

  As You Like It (Shakespeare)

  Astor, David

  Asvat, Zainab

  Aswad (band)

  Austin, Michael (Father)

  Autshumao (Khoikhoi)

  Ayob, Ismail

  Ayob, Zamila

  Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO)

  Balizulu, Nokwale (Chief)

  Bambatha

  Bangilizwe (Chief)

  Bantustan Scheme

  Barnard, Lukas (Niël)

  Barratt, John

  Beatrix (Queen)

  Bella, (Ahmed) Ben

  Benson, Mary

  Bernstein, Hilda (née Schwarz)

  Bernstein, Lionel (Rusty)

  Bethell, Nicholas (Lord)

  Bhala, Nomabutho

  bin Laden, Osama

  Bizos, George

  Black As I Am (Zindzi Mandela)

  Black Consciousness Movement

  Black Pimpernel (nickname given to NM)

  Black Resistance Politics in South Africa (Tom Lodge)

  Boetie Gaan Border Toe (film)

  Born of the People (Luis Taruk)

  Botha, Pieter (Prime Minister)

  Bradley, Shauna

  Brahimi, Abdelhamid (Prime Minister)

  Breytenbach, Breyten

  Brutus, Dennis

  Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Dee Brown)

  Bush, George H W (Snr) (President)

  Bush, George W (Jnr) (President)

  Buthelezi, Irene

  Buthelezi, Mangosuthu (Chief)

  Cachalia, Amina (née Asvat)

  Cachalia, Ismail (Maulvi)

  Cachalia, Yusuf

  Carolus, Cheryl

  Carter, Rosalynn

  Castro, Fidel (President)

  censorship

  Cetywayo (Zulu)

  Chapman, Tracy

  Chiba, Isu (Laloo)

  Chikane, Frank (Reverend)

  Chissano, Joaquim (President)

  Ciskei

  Clarkebury Boarding Institute

  Cliff, Jimmy

  Clinton, William (Bill) (President)

  Coetsee, Hendrik (Kobie)

  Commando (Deneys Reitz)

  Commonwealth Conference

  Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group

  Communist Party

  Congress Alliance

  Congress of the People

  Convention of the People

  Cooper, Sathasivan (Saths)

  Cossiga, Francesco (President)

  Cox, Frank

  Crockett, George (Jr)

  Crystal Palace Bowl

  Cyprian (Zulu)

  Cungwa (Chief)

  Dadoo, Yusuf

  Dalasile, Zanengqele (Chief)

  Dalindyebo, Buyelekhaya (King)

  Dalindyebo, Cleopatra (Queen)

  Dalindyebo, Jongintaba (Chief)

  Dalindyebo, Noluntu (Queen)

  Dalindyebo, Sabata (King)

  Dalindyebo, Zwelibanzi (King)

  Daliwonga see Kaiser Matanzima Daniels, Edward (Eddie)

  Dash, Samuel

  Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners

  de Klerk, Frederik (State President)

  Defiance Campaign Against Unjust Laws

  Derby-Lewis, Clive

  Dimbleby, Jonathan

  Dube, John Langalibalele

  Duncan, Sheena

  Dwane, Sigqibo (Bishop)

  Ekwueme, Alex (Vice-President)

  Egypt

  Electric Boogie (film)

  Elizabeth II (Queen)

  Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW)

  Fernandez, Antonio (Chief)

  First, Ruth

  Fischer, Abram (Bram)

  Fischer, Molly (née Krige)

  Foot, Michael

  Fort Hare University

  ‘Free Nelson Mandela’ (Jerry Dammers)

  Freedom Charter

  Gaddafi, Muammar

  Gaitskell, Hugh

  Gandhi, Indira

  Gandhi, Mohandas (Mahatma)

  Ganyile, Anderson

  Germany

  Gerwel, Jakes

  Gibson, Rex

  Ginwala, Frene

  Gogosoa (leader)

  Goldberg, Denis

  Goldreich, Arthur

  Goldstone Commission and Report

  Goniwe, Matthew

  Gool, Zainunnisa (Cissie)

  Goose Bay (Canada)

  Goose, Gordon

  Greeff, Johannes

  Gregory, James

  Gumede, Archie

  Gwala, Mphephethe (Harry)

  Hani, Tembisile (Chris)

  Hardy, Barbara

  Harmel, Michael

  Haroon, Imam

  Harry the Strandloper see Autshumao

  Hartzenberg, Ferdinand

  Healey, Denis

  Hendrickse, Allan

  Hepple, Bob

  Heyns, Johan

  Hodgson, Jack

  Holomisa, Phathekile (Chief)

  Huddleston, Trevor (Archbishop)

  Hukbalahap

  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou)

  Ireland

  Irish Republican Army (IRA)

  Jabavu, Davidson

  Jabavu, John

  Jassat, Abdulhay

  Johanson, Brian (Reverend)

  Johannesburg International Club

  Jones, Jack

  Joseph, Benjamin

  Joseph, Helen (née Fennell)

  Joyi (Chief)

  ka Senzangakhona, Shaka (King)

  ka Zulu, Zwelithini (King)

  Kantor, James

  Kasrils, Ronnie

  Kathrada, Ahmed biography; conversations with NM; implicated in betraying NM; Pollsmoor Prison; Robben Island prison; works with NM

  Kaunda, Kenneth (President)

  Kearnsley College

  Kelly, Michael (Lord Provost)

  Kentridge, Felicity

  Kemp, JCG

  Khama, Seretse (Sir)

  Khawudle (Chief)<
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  Kinnock, Neil

  Kirkwood, Mike

  Kotane, Moses

  Kruger, James (Jimmy)

  Kruger National Park

  Langenhoven, C J

  language

  le Grange, Louis

  Lee, Canada

  Legum, Colin

  Letsie III (King)

  Liberal Party

  Liliesleaf Farm

  Lockerbie bombing

  London

  Lukhele, Douglas

  Luthuli, Albert (Chief)

  Mabuna, Nelson

  Mabuza, Lindi

  Machel, Graça (née Simbine)

  Machel, Samora (President)

  Macmillan, Harold (Prime Minister)

  Madiba (NM’s clan name)

  Madikizela, Nonyaniso

  Madikizela, NoPhikela

  Madikizela, Nonyaniso

  Maharaj, Satyandranath (Mac)

  Maharaj, Tim

  Mahlangu, Solomon

  Mahomed, Ismail

  Mai Mai Market

  Makwetu, Clarence

  Malefane, M K

  Malefane, Zondwa

  Mampuru (Pedis)

  Mandela, Alexander

  Mandela, Dumani

  Mandela, Evelyn (née Mase)

  Mandela, Madiba Thembekile (Thembi)

  Mandela, Makaziwe (NM’s first daughter)

  Mandela, Makaziwe (Maki)

  Mandela, Makgatho (Kgatho)

  Mandela, Nandi

  Mandela, Ndileka

  Mandela, Nelson

  Awards Burgess Ticket; Jawaharlal Nehru; Order of Playa Giron (Bay of Pigs); New York City College; Nobel Peace Prize; Sakharov; University of Brussels

  Childhood and education at Fort Hare university; at University of the Witwatersrand; at Wesleyan College (Healdtown); classical works; early schooling; importance of education; studying in prison

  Health blackouts; blood in urine; blood pressure; cardiac checks; cholesterol; diet; eye infection; eyesight damaged; examinations; fasting; health farm; kidney damage diagnosed; meditation; physiotherapy; pneumonia; prostate; rumours; sciatica; surgery; tuberculosis; weight

  Names Black Pimpernel; David Motsamayi (adopted name while underground); Madiba (clan name)

  Non-political work stage acting; as a lawyer; travel

  Personal and family life adulthood; birthplace; birth of Makaziwe (first daughter); birth of Makgatho; birth of Thembi; birth of Zenani; birth of Zindziswa; boxing; childhood; circumcision; death of Makaziwe; death of Thembi; divorcing Evelyn; divorcing Winnie; early years; father; forced marriage; friendship; grandchildren; house bombed; lack of time for family; marriage to Evelyn; meets Graça; mother; pines for family while in prison; prison visits; relationship with Winnie; separation from Winnie; sexuality; sisters; worries that family penalised; see also names of family members

  Personal characteristics ambition; clothing and appearance; attitude to death penalty; charisma; compassion; curiosity; dignity; discipline; dreams; endurance; family man; forgiveness; good memory; heroism; inclusiveness; insight; inspiration; love of gardening; love of literature; love of music; loyalty; moral integrity; opportunism; patriotism; perseverance; persuasiveness; practicality; regrets; religious beliefs; respect for environment; romantic; self-deprecation; sense of duty; sense of fairness; sense of humour; sociability; too trusting; vision; workaholic

  Political activism Defiance Campaign; ANC Youth League; arrest; banning orders; Bantu Education Act; boycotts; guerrilla warfare; interfering in personal life; imprisonment; military training; petitions for release; police raids; represents prisoners; solidarity; Rivonia Trial; tactics; television; Treason Trial; Umkhonto we Sizwe; underground; see also freedom fighting

  Political career, post-prison AIDS; Burundi Peace Process; Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA); discusses nationalism; elected president; negotiations with South African government; NM notes from first session as president; period following release; political violence; proposal to reduce voting age; tour to Canada; tour to Egypt; tour to Europe; tour to Kenya, Uganda and Mozambique; tour to US; understanding governmental security intelligence

  Political views assassination; Bantustans; chieftainship; church; communism; colonisation; cultural influence on; democracy; economy; elections; equality; freedom; freedom fighting; government; historical context; imperialism, leadership; nonracialism; non-violence; on monarchy; propaganda; racism; response of younger generation; sacrifice; separatism; traditional background; treason; war; Western influence; women; see also censorship

  Speeches abandoned; after assassination of Chris Hani; at Sebokeng; at Sophiatown; at end of Rivonia Trial; style; on Winnie’s ‘necklacing’ speech

  Writing desk calendars; diary (1962); habits; Long Walk to Freedom; notebook (1962); notebooks and personal papers (miscellany); prison letters; proposes talks between ANC and government; smuggled letter to lawyers in Durban (1977); to Graça Machel; transcriptions; translations of; unpublished autobiographical manuscript written in prison; unpublished sequel to autobiography

  Mandela, Nkosi Mphakanyiswa Gadla

  Mandela, Nosekeni (Fanny)

  Mandela, Thoko

  Mandela, Winnie (Madikizela-Mandela, Nomzamo Winifred) arrest; at Baragwanath Hospital; at Pretoria Prison; banning orders; biography; birth of Zenani; birth of Zindziswa; deportation; detained under Terrorism Act; hospitalised after car crash; imprisonment; letters from NM; marriage to NM; miscarriage; necklacing; police harassment of; receives death threats; relationship with NM; restrictions on; separation from NM; temper; visits NM in prison

  Mandela, Zenani (Zeni)

  Mandela, Zindziswa (Zindzi)

  Mangaliso, Ndamase (King)

  Manhattan Brothers (band)

  Maori

  Maqoma (Rharhabe)

  Marks, John (J B)

  Marxism see Communist Party

  Masekela, Barbara

  Masekela, Hugh

  Masemola, Jafta (Jeff)

  Mashiri, Clifford

  Masire, Quett (President)

  Masololi, Jerry

  Matanzima, Kaiser (K D) names (Daliwonga), (Wonga); biography; meets NM; divergent views; letters from NM; works with NM; visits NM in prison;

  Matanzima, Mafu

  Matthews, Frieda (née Bokwe)

  Matthews, Zachariah (Z K)

  Matyolo, Reverend

  Mbeki, Govan (Zizi)

  Mbeki, Thabo (President)

  Meer, Fatima

  Meer, Shenaz

  Meiring, Georg (General)

  Methodist Church

  Mfume, Kweisi

  Mhlaba, Raymond (Ndobe)

  Miller, Arthur

  Missing (film)

  Mitchell’s Plain

  Mitterrand, François (President)

  MK see ANC armed divisions, Umkhonto we Sizwe

  Mkwayi, Nolusapho

  Mkwayi, Wilton (Bri Bri)

  Mlangeni, Andrew (Mpandla)

  Mngoma, John

  Mnqanqeni (Chief)

  Mogoerane, Simon

  Mohamad, Mahathir (Prime Minister)

  Moi, Daniel (Arap) (President)

  Moise, David

  Mokoena, Harry

  Molefe, Petrus

  Molete, Zachariah

  Molotsi, Johannes

  Mompati, Ruth

  Montane, Jesus

  Moolla, Moosa (Mosie)

  Morobe, Murphy

  Moroka, James

  Mosieloa, Joy

  Motaung, Marcus

  Mothopeng, Zephania

  Motlana, Nthato

  Motlanthe, Kgalema

  Motsamayi, David (NM’s adopted name while underground)

  Motsoaledi, Caroline

  Motsoaledi, Elias (Mokoni)

  Mpetha, Oscar

  Mpumlwana (Reverend)

  Mthembu, Patrick

  Mtirara, Rochelle

  Mulroney, Brian (Prime Minister)

  multiracialism

  Mubarak, Hosni
(President)

  Museveni, Yoweri (President)

  Mxenge, Mlungisi Griffiths

  Mxenge, Victoria

  Naicker, Gangathura (Monty)

  Nair, Billy

  Nanabhai, Shirish

  National Liberation Front, Algeria (ALN)

  National Party (NP)

  Ndamase, Bongolethu (Queen)

  Ndamase, Vulindlela (King)

  Nehru, Jawaharlal

  Nelson Mandela Institute for Education and Rural Development

  New York

  Ngoyi, Lilian

  Njongwe, Constance (Connie)

  Njongwe, James (Jimmy) Lowell Zwelinzima

  Nkobi, Thomas

  Nokwe, Philemon (Duma)

  NoMoscow (Senior wife of King Sabata)

  Ntuli, Sam

  Nxumalo, Henry

  Nzo, Alfred

  basanj, Olugun (President)

  Odasoa (leader)

  Omar, A M

  Opperman, D J

  Orlando (Soweto)

  Pan Africanist Congress (PAC)

  Paul II, John (Pope)

  Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang (film)

  Payi, Clarence Lucky

  Peake, George

  Pintasilgo, Maria (Prime Minister)

  Plaatje, Solomon

  Poitier, Sidney

  Pokela, John

  Pollsmoor Prison

  Potato Boycott (1959)

  Qokolweni

  Qunu

  Radebe, Gaur

  Ramaphosa, Cyril

  Ramphele, Mamphela

  Red Star Over China (Edgar Snow)

  Resha, Robert

  Revenge of the Nerds (film)

  Rhanugu, Phathiwe

  Rhodes, Cecil John

  Rhodesia; see also Zimbabwe

  Rivonia Trial

  Robben Island prison

  Ross, Colleen

  Rossouw, Mike

  Roux (General)

  Ruck, Marjorie

  Sampson, Anthony

  Sandile, Zanesizwe (King)

  Sands, Robert (Bobby)

  Scott, Michael

  Seakamela, Oupa

  Seakamela, Zoleka

  Selassie, Haile (Emperor)

  Shabangu, Johannes

  Shaka see also ka Senzangakhona, Shaka (King)

  Shakespeare, William

  Sharpeville Massacre

  Shell House

  Shope, Gertrude

  Sikhakhane, Joyce

  Sidelsky, Lazar

  Sigcau, Princess Stella (Prime Minister)

  Sigcau, Thandizulu (King)

  Silimela (Chief)

  Simons, Anthony (Reverend)

  Sisulu, Albertina (née Thethiwe)

  Sisulu, Walter biography; clan name (Tyhopho), (Xhamela); implicated in betraying NM; impressive leader; related to Evelyn Mase; works with NM

 

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