Nelson Mandela: A Biography

708 Pages·2010·5.59 MB·English

Table of Contents

ALSO BY MARTIN MEREDITH:
Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
PROLOGUE

CHAPTER 1 - THE MISSION SCHOOL LADDER
CHAPTER 2 - JOHANNESBURG
CHAPTER 3 - FRIENDS AND COMRADES
CHAPTER 4 - THE APARTHEID MACHINE
CHAPTER 5 - THE ‘M’ PLAN
CHAPTER 6 - THE FREEDOM CHARTER
CHAPTER 7 - ‘THE FABULOUS DECADE’
CHAPTER 8 - A TRIAL OF ENDURANCE
CHAPTER 9 - SPEAR OF THE NATION
CHAPTER 10 - CAPTURE
CHAPTER 11 - OPERATION MAYIBUYE
CHAPTER 12 - THE RIVONIA TRIAL
CHAPTER 13 - PRISONER 466/64
CHAPTER 14 - A DOUBLE ORDEAL
CHAPTER 15 - SOWETO
CHAPTER 16 - FREE MANDELA!
CHAPTER 17 - TALKING WITH THE ENEMY
CHAPTER 18 - THE FOOTBALL CLUB
CHAPTER 19 - BOTHA’S TEA PARTY
CHAPTER 20 - A STEP TO FREEDOM
CHAPTER 21 - THE THIRD MAN
CHAPTER 22 - WINNIE’S TRIAL
CHAPTER 23 - CODESA
CHAPTER 24 - WINNIE’S DOWNFALL
CHAPTER 25 - THE SUNSET CLAUSE
CHAPTER 26 - THE LONELIEST MAN
CHAPTER 27 - THE ELECTION ROLLER-COASTER
CHAPTER 28 - REINVENTING SOUTH AFRICA
CHAPTER 29 - THE BITTER END
CHAPTER 30 - THE GRAVY TRAIN
CHAPTER 31 - DEALING WITH THE PAST
CHAPTER 32 - PASSING THE BATON
CHAPTER 33 - L’ENVOI

NOTES ON SOURCES
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
Copyright Page
ALSO BY MARTIN MEREDITH:
The Past Is Another Country: Rhodesia—UDI to Zimbabwe
The First Dance of Freedom: Black Africa in the Postwar Era
In the Name of Apartheid: South Africa in the Postwar Era
Coming to Terms: South Africa’s Search for Truth
Elephant Destiny: Biography of an Endangered Species in Africa
Mugabe: Power, Plunder, and the Struggle for Zimbabwe
The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence
Diamonds, Gold, and War:
The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
IN THE YEARS THAT I HAVE BEEN WRITING ABOUT SOUTH AFRICA,
AS a journalist and as an author, I have encountered much generosity and
goodwill. Many people on many occasions have given me valued help and
assistance and shown great hospitality. For all the acts of kindness I have
received, I am profoundly grateful. I would like here to record my thanks in
particular to Nelson Mandela and to his friends and colleagues who were so
forthcoming about him. I am especially grateful to Walter Sisulu, and to Beryl
Baker, Fikile Bam, Mary Benson, Hilda Bernstein, Rusty Bernstein, George
Bizos, Nat Bregman, Amina Cachalia, Yusuf Cachalia, Ilse Fischer, Ruth
Fischer, Bob Hepple, Rica Hodgson, Joel Joffe, Adelaide Joseph, Paul Joseph,
Kathy Kathrada, Wolfie Kodesh, Mac Maharaj, Govan Mbeki, Godfrey Pitje,
Lazar Sidelsky, Joe Slovo, Ben Turok and Harold Wolpe. My thanks are also
due to librarians at the William Cullen Library and Jan Smuts House Library,
University of the Witwatersrand, at The Star, Johannesburg, and at Queen
Elizabeth House, University of Oxford. I am also grateful to Penny Hoare, for
her early encouragement of the work; to Christina Hardyment, Heidi Holland,
Felicity Bryan, Kate Jones, and Antonia Till; and to Rachel Whitehead, for
providing the rural retreat where this book was written.