OMNI UN NELSON MANDELA DAY,
JULY 18, 2013, MANDELA 95 TODAY. Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of
Peace and Justice.
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Contents #1 July 18, 2012
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Contents #2 2013
Facts
Mandela Gravely Ill
Preparations to Celebrate His 95th Birthday
Books
How Far We Slaves Have Come
Long Walk to Freedom
In His Own Words
Nelson Mandela
Former President of South Africa
Nelson Rolihlahla
Mandela is a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and politician who
served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. Wikipedia
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Children: Makaziwe Mandela, Zindziswa Mandela,Makgatho Mandela, Zenani Mandela, Madiba Thembekile Mandela
Spouse: Graça Machel (m. 1998), Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (m.
1958–1996), Evelyn Mase (m.
1944–1958)
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Ailing Nelson Mandela's family says 'health is
in God's hands now'
Tuesday,
Jul 2, 2013, 18:46 IST | Agency: ANI
South
Africans have gathered in huge numbers outside the hospital lighting candles
and leaving notes for their beloved Madiba.
Nelson
Mandela - AFP
The grief struck family of former South African President, Nelson
Mandela, have ruled out any discussions to end his life support and left it for
the God to decide his fate.
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, former wife of Mandela, told CNN in an
exclusive interview that it was painful to see him in such critical situation.
Mandela, 94, remains in critical but stable condition at a Pretoria
South Africans have gathered in huge numbers outside the hospital
lighting candles and leaving notes for their beloved Madiba.
South Africans ready to celebrate Nelson
Mandela's 95th birthday
Tuesday, Jul 2, 2013, 18:48 IST
| Agency: IANS
Mandela's
birthday, July 18, was recognised in 2009 by the UN as Nelson Mandela
International Day.
South Africans are ready to celebrate the 95th birthday of
anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, who has been is hospital for more than
three weeks for a recurring lung infection, President Jacob Zuma said.
In the latest official update on Mandela's condition, Zuma said
the Nobel laureate "is still critical but stable" in a Pretoria
"We remind all South Africans to begin planning for Madiba's
birthday on the 18th of July. We must all be able to do something good for
humanity on this day, in tribute to our former President," Zuma said.
The president thanked all South Africans for keeping Mandela and
his family in their thoughts and prayers.
On Saturday, National Assembly Speaker Max Sisulu said Mandela was
making progress.
"We are pleased with the progress Madiba is making," he
said after visiting Mandela.
"We love him dearly and don't want to let him go."
On the same day, Zuma said: "We hope very soon he (Mandela)
will be out of hospital."
Mandela's birthday, July 18, was recognised in 2009 by the UN as
Nelson Mandela International Day.
For the Fourth Mandela International Day, there will be official
programmes to celebrate Mandela's birthday, but various organisations have
worked out plans to celebrate the day with public gatherings, concerts and
charity events.
Mandela gave call to the world June 27, 2008 that people can all
make a difference by doing good in their communities.
Mandela Day serves as an annual call to action to people
everywhere to contribute to the global movement for doing good by effecting
change within their communities. During the day, people around the globe are
urged to give 67 minutes of their time to make a change in their community and
thus, the world.
Books
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How Far We Slaves
Have Come!
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Speaking together in Cuba in 1991, Mandela and Castro discuss the place in the history of Africa of Cuba and Angola’s victory over the invading U.S.-backed South African army, and the resulting acceleration of the fight to bring down the racist apartheid system. “The speeches are both tributes to the Cuban people for their internationalist aid to the anti-apartheid struggle and to the vanguard role of the African National Congress and, at the distance of almost two decades, Mandela’s speech has shown great staying power.” [Annotation ©2010 Book News Inc. |
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Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of
Nelson Mandela[Paperback]
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Book Description
October 1, 1995
Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of
our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against
racial oppression in South
Africa South Africa Johannesburg
Mandela - In his own words
Quotations
from Nelson Mandela's best-known speeches and statements
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The Observer, Saturday 10 February 2001 22.03 EST
"We plan to make government impossible. I have chosen this
latter course which is more difficult and entails more risk and hardship than
sitting in jail. I have had to separate myself from my dear wife and children,
from my mother and sisters, to live as an outlaw in my own land. I have had to
close my business, to abandon my profession, and live in poverty and
misery". ANC press statement made from hiding, 26 June 1961
"During my lifetime I have dedicated
myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white
domination and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the
ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in
harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for
and to see realised. But if needs be, my lord, it is an ideal for which I am
ready to die." At the Rivonia trial, 20 April 1964
"I stand here before you not as a prophet
but as a humble servant of you, the people. Your tireless and heroic sacrifices
have made it possible for me to be here today. I therefore place my life in
your hands." On his release from prison, 11 February 1990
"The achievement of democracy was the
defining challenge - the long walk continues." Farewell speech to
Parliament, 29 March 1999
"Apartheid was experienced as such a
basic onslaught against human dignity that it demeaned all of us - one has an
appreciation for the support received from people all over the world,
irrespective of their party political affiliation." Speech to the British
Labour Party conference, 29 September 2000
"Today, all of us do, by our presence
here, and by our celebrations in other parts of our country and the world,
confer glory and hope to newborn liberty. Out of the experience of an
extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of
which all humanity will be proud.
Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans
must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's
belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul
and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all - never, never and never
again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression
of one by another, and suffer the indignity of being the skunk of the world."
From Mandela's
inaugural address as President of South Africa
"We dedicate this day to all the heroes
and heroines in this country and the rest of the world who sacrificed in many
ways and surrendered their lives so that we could be free.
Their dreams have become reality. Freedom is
their reward.
We are both humbled and elevated by the honor
and privilege that you, the people of South
Africa , have bestowed on us, as the first President of a
united, democratic, non-racial and non-sexist South Africa
We understand it still that there is no easy
road to freedom.
We know it well that none of us acting alone
can achieve success.
We must therefore act together as a united
people, for national reconciliation, for nation building, for the birth of a
new world.
Let there be justice for all.
Let there be peace for all.
Let there be work, bread, water and salt for
all.
Let each know that for each the body, the mind
and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.
Never, never and never again shall it be that
this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another and
suffer the indignity of being the skunk of the world.
Let freedom reign".
Extracts from Inaugural Address as President
of South Africa
END MANDELA DAY JULY 18, 2013
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