Word: mandela
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...only for a limited franchise for blacks, based on criteria like property or education--in a country where blacks cannot own the land their houses stand on, and where the black schools are hardly worth attending. (I wonder whether Harvard would ever grant an honorary degree to Nelson Mandela, the great black South African who spoke out for freedom. It seems unlikely; Mandela could not come to receive the degree in person, anyway, because--like so many South Africans, black and white, who too strongly have denounced apartheid--he has been in prison for 15 years.) Apartheid's supporters...
...true that the masses of the South African people probably don't know what corporations are, but give a leader 20 minutes of free speech, which they haven't got at the moment, and the people will want withdrawal. Go to the leaders: what have [Nelson] Mandela, [Robert] Sobukwe, [Albert] Luthuli, and Biko said? What they have said is what the people will unswervingly want. What they have said is that they want foreign corporations out of their country...
...salary as a leader of the bantustan Kwazulu. Nominally he has a lot of supporters, but I think his position is eroding every day. He's in the position [Bishop Abel] Muzerewa was in Rhodesia a year ago. Open that society up, and let them all talk freely--let Mandela come off Robben Island prison tomorrow and say that Buthelezi is a no-no, which he would--and Buthelezi's support would melt like the snow in summer...
This year, May Day has particular significance for our brothers and sisters in southern Africa. We should pause for a moment and think of Nelson Mandela, the black South African leader, sitting in his jail cell, in the 15th consecutive year of his imprisonment, and of the all-too-many people who are jailed with...
...life imprisonment or executed under the Sabotage and Suppression of Communism Acts, which define any attempt to change the status quo as "communist." Under such laws, the African National Congress of South Africa--the party of national liberation--was outlawed in 1960, and many opposition leaders--among them Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu and Bram Fischer--sent to jail for life...