Selected Speeches and Writings of Nelson Mandela: The End of Apartheid in South Africa

For 30 years the African National Congress led by Walter Sisulu Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela was the core of opposition to the white supremacist apartheid regime in South Africa. After organizing strikes and founding the armed military wing of the ANC Mandela spent 27 years in jail before emerging as a worldwide symbol of human freedom. In 1994 Mandela became President of South Africa in the first free election in that nations history. This anthology is a collection of Mandelas speeches and writings from his statement to the South African court that sentenced him to life in prison to his acceptance of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize to his speeches as South Africas first elected Black President. Preface gives brief biography.