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l- SOIRCE: ONITEo NATIONS SECURTIY coUncILRESoLUTION 473

(19a0) r 13 June 1t3o-

E*tractiilhe sDculiry council... urgently calls upon the southAfri.atr reqine to re1€ase all political prisoners, includingNelsor rGndela and all other black leaders vith shom iL nustdeal in any neaningfut discussion of the future of the

Z. SOURCD: TIIE CONNONiIE^LTIT ACCORD ON SOUTITEBN

'fRI'AIass]ro, 20 ocrober 1980.

"2. t7e therefo €, .all upon the auLho 1ti.s ln Pretolia forthe follouinq taken in a qenuine manner and aB anatter of urgen.y:...

(c) Rel€ase tmedlately and unconditionalty NelsonMandeta and alr others imprisoned and detained for th.i,oppositlon to apartheid. "

asE AAr. 19

"I recognise x xandela's standing in the Black comunity ins6uth l,frlca and I share your concerh at. his .ontinuedimprisonn.nt. we have nade it clea to the south Aflican

prtvately and publicty that his relea€evould t,e vridely reldoned as an inpo.tant g€stule of

.. SOUNCE: STATEUENT COUIICII], TITE IiAGUE, 2?

"... the Eulopean councll calls on the south African- to unconditiorally relea.e NeI.o. Mandela and

6ther poltti.al prisonerg. ii



SOURCE: RESOIOIIOI| ADOPTED UITAN iOOSI,YPNr,r,\xurll 20 irune 1980.

i- noting that Nerson xandela and other leaders of theAfrican tlatlonal conqreEs in South Africa have been held innaxlnun security plison 6ince 1953,.. declares its Euppoltor the oppressed malority of th.t countly on itB 6t ug91efor these right6, and ca]ls on the covernnent ot s6uthafrica to release NeLson Mandela and the othe. nenbers ofthe aNc imediarery."

SoURCE: Us con}R ffi SI rCT OP 1936-

"The united states rill work tobards thia goal(esLabllshment of a nonracial democracy) by en.ollaging the

s6uth Afri.a to:-

(21 Release Nelson ,4andela, Govan Mbeki. walter si6u1u,black trade urion lcade.s, and arr political priaon€rs."

?. SOUiCE: txI6SIO{ IO SOmA aIRICT i tnE COtlltoNllEALTBREPOfiT: TEE coIlcLUsIOn OF alB coI{xoNlrEAJ,Ta EMIllEllT

PERSOXS CROU ON SOUTBERN TPRICA.

"Aiong Lhe nany striking figures in the coulseNelson Mandera and oliver Tanbo stand otrt.

Their reasonabteneEs, abs€n.e of rancou anit readineEs tofind neqotiated solrtions ehich, whlle creating qenuinedehoc .tic Etrucure. sould still give white6 a feeUnq ofs€.rrity and p.lticipation, inPressed us deeply. If theGovernEent finds it.elf unable to talk rith men like xandelaand Tahbo, then the futule of South Aflica ls bleat indeed."

..lembers of the ,PG arer M . r,raicolm Fras€r (co_chailnan)

lAustralia), Generat olusequn obas.ni6 (co-chairman)(Nlqeria), Lorit Earber or llentb.idge (Britain), Dam€ NitaRarror (Baham.s), John Malecela (rahzania), saldat s{a ansinqh (hdia)r The xost Reverend Edrard Ualter Scdtt



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There can be fer. if any. political lriBoners lhose nane Is

so u.ivelsally krov, a3 that of Nelsoh Mandela. The unitedNations Secu ity CouncIl, the comonsealth, the Eulopean

councilr indeed siatesnen from boih west and East, Nolth and

southr are united in seekinq hi. lelease. Yet xandela

remains incalcelated in Pletoria's dunqeon3.

,ardty a day has goDe by iu the rast 25 years vithout an

event, soneLrhere i. the wor1d, trhose aim fas to ene, and

add slpport to the international .ampaign fo Mandela's

on the 50uth Aflican covelnment toun.onaitionally Bet hin flee i3 con.tant, hoeever, thi3attention is trndoubtedly increased eith the advent of each

anniversaly of his inpliso.4ent.

rhe fir3t lnternationa initiative to s.cule uandelai6

reledse w.s 1n october 1963/ at the beqinning of the Rivonia

Trial, lhen the 'wor1d Campaign for the Release of south

afij.an Political Plisonels" vhich was raunch€d, in I,ondon,elth Jeren, Thotpe as secretary, .aved xandela and hiEco-a.cused froh the gallois.

In 1980, the independence of zlnbabre gave new impetuB tothe canpaign for r,landela's .e1ease. c 3s6roots

orqanisations throughout south afric. Elaited pres6ing thesundny Post neq.paperr unde the edito 3hip

ol the Iate er.y ooboza, qawe the canpaign a nationalfocus, when it publisheil a porerful editolial calllng fohis lelease and organlsed a petition,hich coltectedapproxirately 100,000 signatures, in iust a fev veeks. the,vere arr working touards the same end.



This ne- canpaiqn inside south Africa ra6 echoed

intern.tionally, In June 1940, both The United Nations

securtry counciland

theEulopean

ParliamentunanimouEly

called for r,landelars lelease. And then lt leally gathered

fronentum, with nunerous honouls being bestosed on theimprisoned nan, by countless olganisations. crasgou *as the

first to hake Mandela a Ereenan of the city in 1931i aftewhi.h hany others followed Buit. In that sane yea , the

of classo, initiated an appeal f,or theim'iedjate release or Nelaon, which was endolsed by over

2,000 Mayors from all over the sorld.

o. the 5th of Auglst 1932, vhlch harl(ed 20 yeals ofMandelars cortinuous tnp isonment, Oliver ?anbo. thePresident of the african National congress, lalnched a callror an intensified, universal campaiqn. In response, over a

nillion people signed an iiternational petition, ,hi.h {asp.esentea by Archbtshop rrevor lruddlestoh, the President ofthe AnLi-Apartheid the United Nations

se.retary-Generar in october 1931.

rn the nost lecent period, the capaign has noved to an even

hiqher level, vith a co.certed effort by the Comonvealthahd the Europesn corncil to seek Mandela's release. The

cloup on southern Africa met

nelsor t'ice in Polrsmoor Plison, during its attenpts, in1936, to pronore dialogue betreen the regine and genui.e

replesentatlves of the Black najorlty. rro delesations fromthe European council, the first led by ,Jux€nbourg roleigrlinister rlonsietr Poo3, in t935 and the 6econd by siceorfrey Itore in 1936. both visited South Afrlca to press

for llandelars release. The st.lsqle continues.



CEIDREI{S t AESTII{OtrIES

Hatf the ploceeds raised fron the NeIEon Mandela 70th

Eirthday

.rlibure

villgo

to childrens'projectE

insouth€ln

Africa throDgh: CAFOD, chli3tian Aidi save the childlenFund, oxfao, qa bn nant, IDAF' and the Bishop Anbrose

Tua .r't\- - r{.,&.-G h (d^ptJt l1ro r,,-j\ cl -,{f./ '-"q,.,,';r9...1,'."' ro'sd\ Gl^td+r "'^ :\oN^-rL r\'\€ '

rilliam is a xagiso schoolboy of ll, rho ,aE held indet€ntion fo 2 months in south Africa.

"They put a dumy into my houth, and the dumy had rlre6co.nected to it. The wires {ere connected to a socket on

the wall, and when a policeran tuined or the syitch Ieaperienced a jaffing effect. I also felt ercruciatinqpains io hy head. "

fi€ said the reason he was being toltuled ,as to lorce him tosisn Etatenents adnitting he had attacked three delivery

tru.ks rith petrot boibs. ge {as a13o aorced to lnclirinatehin6etf concerning an incident of ne.klacingr.

Mzi *ulu llq lapaNzjmkulu {as 13 years old and a nehbe of the Porr llizabethYouth co.gre.s rhen he,as detained.

'They *ic,(ed ie and punched and chest- In

the police statlon t o of those holding me .onne.ted anele.tric tube onto ny 1e9 and sait.hed it on. rt ,aB

bad, I was shaklng. They Nar€ aekinq m. questions .boutny friend€. My nother brought ne food but they .te it.In the plisoa I eas in solitary confihenent. I uas

.rylng and Ju6t 61ttin9. alterreleased. 1y ears ,ere bleedtnq ana my he.d hurt.After ny release I could not stand it. Every right I



Nelson Rolihlahla Mardera vas born on 13th Ju1y, 1914, at

Unrata, in the Transkei reqion of the Ea6tern capersouth

Afri.a. Related to Ehe paramount chiefs of Tenbulandi inhis early 20s Maidela renounced any hereditary tribal iighteand prepared fo a leqal obtained a ategree inLap fron the Univelsity of sorth Africa, be. e articled int942 lnd te. years late , set up a 1e9a1 firm inJohannesburq, ,lth Ollve dulng their years

in practice, anongst oth. thingsr they defended hunaleds of4fr,..ns c\a,lrcd unde. rhc apdrrhaid lr*s,

flavlng b.en interesred in the stluggle of the south Africanpeople since boyhood/ NeIson Mandela joined rhe Afric6national Congress (ANCI at the age of 25, ,here, together

with $arter s:isulu, oliver Tarbor Anton Lembede and othels,he H.s a driving force in the establishnent of the ANC Youth

league an.t in the faEt tran5formation of the ANC inlo a

popular trovenenL, against'h. apa Lhejd regin..

By 1952, already Ehorin9 stlong leadership qualities,ilandela had beeD erected President ol rhe rlansvaal branchof the ,lNc and Narional Deputy President. Follorlng this,he a.hieved even qreater national prohinence as tVolunteer

rn chieft. dulinq che Defiance of Uniust la*s canpaiga, uhen

thousands of p.ople .ourted atest by pencefully b e.kingthe apartheld la{s.

Fr6n 1952 ohwards, Mandela tras subjected to repeated banning

orders f,hich severely restricted hia political activities.ao,ever, despite this, be co.tlnued to be the inspi .tionand lorce behihd nany diffelent initiat{ves. For example,

ln a tenporary respite flon these bans in 19s3. along rithrl.lter sisulu and Fathe Tlevo tluddl€ston, he aaldreesed a

n.ss ralrY to grotest aqainst the forcetl renovats of the



inhabltants 6f sophiato{n. And thenr i June 1955. he

played a key role in the convening or the corgless of th€

Peoples, ,here Ereedon Chartefuas adopted.

As a.estrlt of this, at d.rn on 5thDecehber

1956r theinevitable knock on the door came, ,hen he was arrested and

charged vith Iriqd ,rreason. frial beqan inearneit, in Aulrst 1958, however. in Jrne of that yea ,

Nelson xandela ha4ied trinnie Nofrzafro tradikizela.

Nelson andela was one of the 156 people accused in the

Tria1, alising ort of the .itoption of theEreedon Charte . Evenlu.Iry, all ye.e acquitted, dfter .Trial uhich lasted untit xarch 1951. Hooever, duling thlsret.tlvely sh6 r period of tine, south Aflica had been

transformed by the shaipevilre 2tsr Mnrch 1960,

when 69 peopre vere shot de d, du.tnq a peaceful protestaqainst the Pass Laws. The state of Energency thatforloHed, atrd the banning oI the ANC and th€ br€akawly rAC,

fo.ced andela and other^NC

leaders to tevlew th€irsrraresy of non-violent opposirion.

unde flandela's leadership, in ay 1961, a National Action

Councir was call a thlee itay stay A ,loner toestablishmenr of the nev white nepubric of

south Africa. The south Afli.an authorities ,ent all out rosuppless this action and so xandela declared:

"If the governnen leaction is to crush by naked fo.ce our

non-violent struggle. ,e ill have to re.oneider ourtactics, Ih ny nind we ar€ closing a chapte on thiEquestion of a non-violent policy."

rhis sar to happen, .nd Mandeta ras qiven the taEk offorning Umkhonto ve Sizve, of which he was th€ filst

resistance were 16th 1961. Now oper.tine



underqround, Mandela was .bre tovisit heads of state in Africa,sray in Briratn. Follouing his

5th Auqust 1962, he saB EtopPed

stip out of the country, toas ,ell a6 to ftake a Bhort

rettrrn later that yearr on

on a road block and

Filst brouqht to tlial and sentenced to 5 yeats

ihprisonnent, for chalges tncluding ]e.virg the countlv

ir leq.lIy, he uds Lator blouqht fron p iEon Lo rPdppear inNunber one in lhe Rivonia Tria1, uhlch

opened on 9th on April 20th 1961 he made hi6

famols"I

am plepaled to die..." speech flom the dock. on

June l1th, togelhet with ? of h1s co-accusedr he wa. found

guilty of pleparing the aParth.id state and the

rollowing itay. Jlne 12th, he ea5 sentenced to life

r,lan.tela has 6Pent ovet 2, years in Piisonr hlB statule as a

synbol of lesistance and as a Ieader of the peoPle of south

Africa has continued o grow throughout this tine. It isnou internationally recognised that thele can be no

neaninsful Eolutior in south^rricar

vithout the

undonditional release ot Mandel. and .I1 oth€ political



NeIEon Manilel. wa. convicted of se6ka.9 to ow. th o, the.partheid .yst.n, on Juno 11th 1964 end sentenceil to lile

Eis co-.ccB€il, sttl1 s6rvlnE l1fe .entencoB ue:

t{alte si.ulu, nos aged 76;Ahn d Xathr.d.r .o, .ged 5A;Andrev Mlangenl, now ageil 62,Eli.s Motsoaledi, no, agett 53rRaymond Mhlaba, nor .ged 63.

ir.o accc.d vltlr xaritel. Ere:Rnsty BernEtein (,ho ,a5 aquittedl,oenis colbelg (lel€ased on 23th Peblualy 1985, nou riving

ln Brtr.ln) tGovar ltbekl (iho sas leleased on 5th ovenber 1907, dtt

ia llvins unde dlacortan restrictions inPort r1t2ab.th, sourh Afrtca,.



XBY DATES POR 'TREEDOII AI 70'

EOEESDAY 15 Launch of lelson rr.ndela: Fteede

2l Anniv€rsary of sha.pevilte Massncre

(re6o) and Lahqa }laEsacre (1e35)unit€d nations:rnternational Dav forthe lllnination of Racial Discrimination

30 Annivotsarv of banning ol ANc and PAc(1960 )

Annivelsary of execution of solonon

t\nnlve;sav of foundation of swAPO (1960)

"r an prepared to Dle" statement fiom

Date of lette. fron Nelson xandela to

r,4iniste of Justice (19 61) childfen, Apartheitt and Represslon insoutheln Aflica', a one dly conferenceat the city uniwet.ity in london ,speakels include R.v Bay€rE Naud

anniversary of xassinga xagsacre (19?8).

rsth anniweteary of foundaEion oforganlsatlon of Af ica. unlt

Rele.se of 'l,lessage froh M.ndela,.unire,

Moblliser Fighton" (1930)

Nelson t{anilela ?oth Blrthdav Trlbute _

2,tth ,\nniversary of conwiction of Nelsonuan.tela anil other Rivonia T iarlsLs3r,rr .f Nelaon tandela Fleedoo It ar.h _

2ath-Anniversa.y of setrtencing ofRivonla ?ri:1ists, and 2nd Annive 3a yof tmposition of State of trmetgercy in

Meerino in London to celeblate TtevorHuddre;ron s Tsth bilthday.lrarrtaqe anniversary of Nelson andt1linnie uandela {r958)Trevor Huddlestonr6 75th birthddyAnniversary of soweto naEEacre (1976)

6

I920

22

I1

t2

13

14

t5

25-26 congress of People adopt Fleedon Chalee(1955)south Africa Fleedon DaY

Ahniversalv of arrest of r4andelar6co-accused_ rn iiwonl,a Trial (1963)f,el.on rhna.ta Pr€€d{ nallY - svile }aEt

or6rnight vlgil outside south aflicaNel6on nandeta's 70th birthdav

oate of Nand€lars 6riqin.l arre.t in1A



J/ L'-*-*

or rinnie x&ttela

1934 aor tlomzaho winnie t{adiklzela i the rran.keiregion of the south Africa,

fotloslng €econdary educatlon, she Lralned as asocial worker.

rn 1954 She narriod N.lson nandela and whlle p.eqnant ,ithh€r first child (zenani) she ,6s detained foparticipating in. denonstration againEt p.ssefor African eonen.

I. 1962 Afte. just a years of nalliasc Nel3on ,landela ,asi pflsoned, leaving innie Mandeta and thol teoyoung daughte 5 zenani and zindzisra behind. whatvas initially a flve year extended to

1ife. He has not since been letulned to his

In 1976 ]\3 a leadihg nemt'er of the Soweto Arac,( ParentrsAEaociation she w.s detained under the rntelral,security J\ct flon october to Decenber, fo1lo{ing,hich she ,a3 banned fr@ th€ orsaDisation and estricted to orlando.

rn May she vas confined to a houBe in Blandfort location1911 fron 6 am to 5 pn and at veekends, so had no

prospect of enploynent. The hou6e had noEanit.tio. o ete.tri.ity. she defied thq ban

.fter the house vds p.trol-bohbed and retulned toSo{eto, only to be charged in Auqust vlth anothetsuspended sentence. ohi13t in Er.ndfort, win.ietirel€ssly imer3ed herself i. comtrnity ,ork and..nonqst other thinqs, founded a numbe ofselr-herp schenes, as *e1I as a nobife cri.iccatering for hundleds of local people, many ofwhofr had neve. seen the inside of a nedicar unit

In 1905 wjnnie t{ardela uas fo.cibly removed frotr he.soweto house and desplte the nost draconian

restltctions has continued to be at the foreflontol the liberation stluggle,

rn ,rury The south afrlcan cov..nnent confined th.t1936 restrictl,ons on tJtnnie. ,ho was by now livi.g in

Johannesburq, had been lifted.

throughou this ttne and to aate, wlnrte M.ndela ha8 athostcontirually becn hara.3ed, and detained by the seculitypolice - regulting in 6 banninq orders, 13 cou.t

bnt only 2 convi.tton. vere proved, vhich,esu-Led in 6ix- orlh .usp.nded senten.e6.



Th€ hti-Itretheiil xov@lt

The Anti-Apartheid fou.deil in 1959. i lespon6eto the late chief Arbert Luthull'.s appear fo rh€ boycoE ofsouth Africa. Chief Albert Luthuli ,aE then President ofthe J\frican National congleBE and Africar6 fi.st Nober Peace

The Anti-ap.ftheid uoveEent is now led by its PlesidentiArchbishop Tlevor HuddleBton, the vet6 an and ti e1.ss.6mpaiqner for freedon in southern Afrlca. It has grovn

into one of tho nosE poeerful canpaignlng organisations insritain, sith Eone 200 lo.al gloups thloughout the countlyland is the forenost anti-apartheid hovement in the {or}d.

sinpre: To put ove the nessage of ehlrspartheid really meanB. To pronote acti6n to i.olate.partheld south Atrica and to hobilise suppolt fo those

stlggling fo. fleedon in south Africa anal Nanibia. It has

had a m.jo impact in irfluencing public opinion aDd

acheived a significant breakthrouqh in the Eporting and

culturat boycotts. It is nov stepping up its genelalofrensive for Eanctions.nd th6 talgettrng of Briti5hecononic linksr follorirg the success of lts rBoycott

Barclays'canpaign.

The Anti-Apalthe:id r'rovenent is highty respected in theComonaealth and the United Natlonsr .nd lt plays . key .olein the international 4ampaiqn aqainet apartheid.



Artlst6 Against aparth€id i,s th. Brltilh contrlbutlon to th.tlofldrld. @ve@nt ol a ti.t. a.d palfolmera who esupPolt.ing, through thej. . tr the 3tru99le of th. p.ople otSouth Af 1ca and Ndibia againBt aputteid-

It saE eBtablished ir l9a6 follding the .ucce.. of the u.s.baE.at ArtlstE Agalnst apaltheld atrd th. rI Alnrt conna Play

A qualte of a nillion peopl€ att€ndeil tlr. 1Bt [email protected] r on c1.phe co@on ln June 1986.

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