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“... ANC’s upper ranks has become an increasing embarrassment to the ANC leadership. Publicly, from Mandela on down, the movement loyally asserts that it is entirely happy with the SACP alliance, but in practice this alliance is costing the ANC dear in the world at large on whose support it has come to rely. The US Congress has cut funding for the ANC because ...”

“... the white settlers in East Africa were of ‘an extraordinarily good type’. Smuts, rather than Nelson Mandela, was South Africa’s man of the century: from 1895 to 1948, his enormous energy was brought to bear continuously on the shape and future of the country. It is only when one realises this, and knows what Smuts was thinking, that one ...”

“... for an Exhibition. (Kentridge is the daughter of two anti-apartheid lawyers; her father defended Nelson Mandela in the Treason Trial of 1956.) Unlike other moments in the poem, it does not seem as if this is the voice of a mother speaking to her daughter, but the daughter, punishingly, addressing herself. When I look back at the conference, in fact ...”

“... the Reef, it has become a national addiction to scour the papers for news of whether Buthelezi and Mandela will meet and draw a halt to the killing. Twenty-four hours after the Klipspruit attack (a minor episode in an escalating nightmare), the papers could offer no solace on this question. In Johannesburg, however, the Star dedicated half a page to the ...”

“... gets into similar trouble when it interweaves the action in Sweden with a plot to assassinate Nelson Mandela just before the end of apartheid – there are even chapters in which we are presented with the inner thoughts of F.W. de Klerk. This Third World Other is present in Mankell’s life and work in another, surprising way. He divides his time ...”

“... narratives: one, from around 1996, constellates Magic Johnson, O.J. Simpson, Michael Jordan, Nelson Mandela, Malcolm X and others in a fraught tribute to Black masculinity.Tompkins’s work is attuned to all the nuances of race, gender and class that fabric can signify. When set next to each other to accentuate textural contrast, seemingly similar ...”

“... it was likely to be a single-issue protest. What did the Special AKA want when they sang ‘Free Nelson Mandela’? Exactly what it said on the record label. The song was saved from obviousness by the ambiguity in the simple lyrics. The words ‘Are you so blind that you cannot see?/Are you so deaf that you cannot hear?’ seemed to be addressed both to ...”

“... others, since the film cuts from an American classroom to one in Soweto, where the teacher is now Nelson Mandela. But surely it is significant that Mandela refused to say the words ‘by any means necessary’, and his hesitation, or what it means, cries out for representation in the movie. For Lee it’s just a ...”

“... met with rage and moral disapproval. This Manichaean certainty reaches its zenith in the cult of Mandela. The cult has solid foundations, of course; Mandela himself is far too nice a human being to encourage it – though being human, he undoubtedly enjoyed floating around in the bubble of adulation it created. The facts ...”

“... do the Murdoch kow-tow and cut its diplomatic ties with Taiwan was South Africa, late last year. Nelson Mandela, like Robin Cook, knows, or thinks he knows, that the huge potential market of the PRC is more important than human rights. You might expect that such hypocrisy would depress the Taiwanese, but not a bit of it. Used to living on the edge of ...”

“... publicly opined that Zuma would be a good choice for the post of ANC Deputy President vacated by Mandela on his assumption of the Presidency, the grinding of teeth within the ANC became almost audible. Initially, the No 2 job had seemed a clear choice between the movement’s two young lions, Thabo Mbeki and Chris Hani. Such a choice would, however, have ...”

“... development as well as a widespread black poverty – lack a broadly acknowledged leadership. Nelson Mandela could prove an exception, but he still remains incarcerated in conditions which elevate his national credibility. Some outsiders assert that the African National Congress, because it is avowedly popular among Africans in South Africa, and is ...”

“... In 1751, the onetime regent of Padang, an elite political prisoner held on Robben Island (where Nelson Mandela was confined for eighteen years), cheerfully conspired with an ordinary criminal to stage a rebellion against their Dutch guards and other local Europeans. When their plan failed, the difference in their status meant little. Each man was tied ...”

“... power with a global moral authority comparable only to that of the Pope, the Dalai Lama or Nelson Mandela. And just as at the end of a fairy tale when the hero is rewarded for all his suffering by marrying the princess, he is married to a beautiful movie actress. Why, then, has John Keane chosen as the subtitle of his biography ‘A Political ...”

“... fluorescent highlighter) or multiply it exponentially (when the annotator happens to be Galileo or Nelson Mandela). Marginalia challenges previous historians’ pious assumption that audience participation is inherently democratic. Because Jackson emphasises ordinary readers’ annotations rather than authors’ autograph manuscripts – or, more ...”