South Africa: Mandela Reading Week End At Timbooktoo

20 December 2013
book review

Nelson Mandela: Speeches, Letters and Other Writers, Pearson Modern Classics, 2002, 167 pages

In 1964, a few months after Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) was jailed by the Apartheid regime, a small compendium of his most notable writings and speeches was published under the arresting title NO EASY WALK TO FREEDOM. In the preface of the edition by Dr Oliver Tambo, the great anti-apartheid hero who for three decades led the ANC while Mandela was in jail, explained the long years that he and Mandela shared as professional colleagues sharing the same legal practice and also working together in the ANC as leaders of the struggle.

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