BEFORE YOU READ

BEFORE YOU READ Apartheid is a political system that separates people accordingto their race. Can you say which of the three countries namedbelow had such a political system until very recently?(i) United States of America(ii) South Africa(iii) Australia Have you heard of Nelson Mandela? Mandela, and his AfricanNational Congress, spent a lifetime fighting against had to spend thirty years in prison. Finally, democraticelections were held in South Africa in 1994, and Mandela becamethe first black President of a new this extract from his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom,Mandela speaks about a historic occasion, the inauguration . Canyou guess what the occasion might be? Check your guess withthis news item (from the BBC) of 10 May 1994.

Oliver Tambo Walter Sisulu Chief Luthuli Robert Sobukwe over turned forever and replaced by one that recognised the rights and freedoms of all peoples, regardless of the colour of their skin. That day had come about through the unimaginable sacrifices of thousands of my people, people whose suffering and courage can never be counted or repaid.

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