A Long Walk to Freedom
by Ananya Biswal
1. He was not born with a hunger to be free. He was born free
1.1. -As a student, wanted freedom for himself Transitory freedom- staying out at night , Read what he pleased, Go where he chose.
1.2. As a youngman he discovered that his boyhood freedom was an illusion. -discovered his freedom has already been taken away from him.
1.3. It dawned on him, that not only he wasn't free ,his brothers and sisters weren't free.
2. Was accompanied by daughter Zenani
3. Freedom as a child: run in the fields near my mother's hut. Free to swim in the clear stream Free to roast mealies under the stars Ride broad backs of slow- moving bulls. Free as long as he obeyed his father's and sticked to the customs of his tribe.
4. FREEDOM IS INDIVISIBLE; THE CHAINS ON ANYONE OF HIS PEOPLE WERE CHAINS ON ALL OF THEM
5. As a young man of Johannesburg, he yearned for basic and honourable freedom. - earning enough money to live on. (Earn his keep) - marrying and having a family
6. Apartheid was a political and social system in South Africa during the era of White minority rule. It enforced racial discrimination against non-Whites, mainly focused on skin colour and facial features. This existed in the twentieth century, from 1948 until the early-1990s.
6.1. New Topic
7. Nelson Mandela born few years after Anglo Boer war and before Apartheid. (18 July 1918)
8. After Anglo Boer war, white people of SA patched up their differences and erected a system of racial domination against dark-skinned people.
9. This created the basis of one of the most harshest, most inhumane societies the world has ever known.
10. Twin Obligations: -Obligations to his family, to his parents, to his wife and children - obligation to his people, his community and his country
10.1. In SA one couldn't fulfill these obligations
11. JOINED ANC HUNGER FOR FREEDOM OF HIS PEOPLE BECAME GREATER THAN HIS PERSONAL FREEDOM.
11.1. Desire for the freedom of his people to love their lives with dignity and self respect animated his life.
12. South Africa's first black president after more than 3 centuries of white rule. African Congress Party 252/400 seats
12.1. Inauguration took place in amphitheatre in Pretoria
12.2. 140 countries attended
12.3. Ceremony took place at sandstone amphitheatre formed by union buildings in Pretoria
12.3.1. Autumn Day
12.3.2. Literally: it is autumn in South Africa as it in the Southern Hemisphere. Figuratively: In AUTUMN old rotten leaves fall down, similarly the old rotten system of Apartheid has come to an end and A new republic based on equality of men, colours, races emerged.