Nelson Mandela-A Long Walk to Freedom.ppt

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1. Before We go ahead, think about the following:
What is the national anthem of India?
What kind of government is framed in India?
Name the foremost freedom fighters who fought
against discrimination in India.
Can you define the term “Discrimination”?
What do you think Apartheid is?
Who fought against discrimination in South Africa?
Name the foremost freedom fighter of South
Africa.

2. NELSON MANDELA
A LONG WALK TO FREEDOM

3. NELSON MANDELA : A LONG WALK TO
FREEDOM
•This is the name of Mandela’s autobiographical book.
•This occurs in South Africa and tells the story of Nelson Mandela, from
his life as a young boy to his decades long stay in prison.
•It discusses apartheid in South Africa and Mandela's struggle for equal
human rights for everyone in his country.
•Nelson Mandela's early life is focused on, as he struggled for the equal
treatment of black people in his country. The story does not focus on grim
details, but it does make clear the struggles faced by so many.
•As it is abridged from his autobiography, this chapter is in the first
person and details events from Nelson Mandela's perspective.

4. WHO IS MANDELA?
•Nelson Mandela, b. July 18, 1918, was the first South
African President to be elected in a fully representative
democratic election.
•Trained as an attorney, he helped form the Youth League of
the African National Congress (ANC)in1944.
•In 1961 he abandoned peaceful protest and became head
of the ANC’s new militarywing.
•Sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964, Mandela came to
symbolize black political aspirations and was named head
of the ANC after his release on Feb. 11,1990
•He and F. W. de Klerk shared the Nobel Peace Prize for
negotiating South Africa’s peaceful transition to multiracial
democracy.
•After the ANC victory in the April 1994 elections, Mandela
worked to ease racial tensions, court foreign investment,
and provide services to the victims of‘Apartheid’.

5. APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA
Apartheid, which means separateness, was enforced in South Africa from 1948 until 1994, when
the first vote including all South Africans was held. During apartheid, those inhabitants of South
Africa who were not white had their rights restricted and were not allowed the same freedoms
as their white counterparts. Nelson Mandela, and many others, fought against this system,
eventually overturning it and forever changing the face of South Africa's history.

6. LET’S COME TO THE CHAPTER
•The inauguration ceremony took place in the Union Buildings
amphitheatre in Pretoria, attended by politicians and dignitaries of more
than 140 countries around the world.
•Nelson Mandela spoke to the gathering about the sufferings of common man
in South Africa and that how the policy of Apartheid created a deep and
lasting wound in their country.
•He talked about the courage and struggle of comrades that every time
he has seen men & women risk and give their lives for an idea .
•It discusses apartheid in South Africa and Mandela's struggle for equal
human rights for everyone in his country.

7. ImportantQuotesfromhisAddress
•“Never,neveragainthisbeautifullandofSouthAfricaexperiencethe
oppressionofonebyanother.”
•“Iwasnotbornwithahungertobefree.Iwasbornfree__freein
everywaythatIcouldknow.ItwasonlywhenIbegantolearnthat
myboyhoodfreedomwasanillusion.”
•“Itwasthisdesireforthefreedomofmypeopletolivetheirliveswith
dignityandself-respectthatanimatedmylife.IamnottrulyfreeifI
amtakingawaysomeoneelse’sfreedom,justassurelyIamnotfree
whenmyfreedomistakenfromme.Theoppressorandoppressed
alikearerobbedtheirhumanity.”

8. * In life, every man has twin obligations —obligations to his family,
to his parents, to his wifeand children; and he has an obligation to
his people, his community andhiscountry.
* In a civil and humane society, each man is able to fulfill
those obligations according to his own inclinations and
abilities.

9. * But in a country like South Africa, it was almost impossible
for a man of my birth and colour to fulfil both of those
obligations.
* In South Africa, a man of colourwho attempted to live as a
human being was punished andisolated.
*A man who tried to fulfilhis duty to his people was
inevitably ripped from his family and his home and was
forced to live a life apart, a twilight existence of secrecy and
rebellion.
*In South Africa, a man of colourwho attempted to live as a
human being was punished andisolated.

10. I did not in the beginning choose to place my
peopleabovemyfamily,butinattempting to serve
my people, I found that I was preventedfrom
fulfilling myobligationsasa son,a brother, a father
and ahusband.

11. Iwasnotbornwitha hunger to be free. I
was born free —free in every way that I could
know.

12. * Free to run in the fields near my mother’s hut,freetoswim
intheclear stream thatranthroughmyvillage,freeto roast
mealiesunderthestarsandride the broadbacksofslow-
moving bulls.
* As longasIobeyedmyfatherandabided by the customs of
my tribe, I was not troubled by the laws of man orGod.

13. It was only when I
began to learn that
my boyhood freedom
was an illusion, when
I discovered as a
young man that my
freedom had already
been taken from me,
that I began to hunger
forit.

14. * At first, as a student, I wanted freedom only for myself, the
transitory freedoms of being able to stay out at night, read what I
pleased and go where Ichose.
*Later, as a young man in Johannesburg, I yearned for the
basic and honourablefreedoms of achieving my potential, of
earning my keep, of marrying and havinga family —the
freedom not to be obstructed in a lawfullife.

15. But then I slowly saw that not only was I not
free, but my brothers and sisters were not
free.

16. * I saw that it was not just my freedom that was curtailed, but
the freedom of everyone who looked like Idid.
* That is when I joined the African National Congress, and that
is when the hunger for my own freedom became the greater
hunger for the freedom of mypeople.

17. It was this desire for the freedom of my people to live their
lives with dignity and self-respect that animated mylife, that
transformed a frightened young man into a bold one, that
drove a law-abiding attorney to become a criminal, that
turned a family-loving husband into a man without a home,
that forced a life-loving man to live like amonk.

18. Freedom is indivisible; the chains on anyone of
my people were the chains on all of them, the
chains on all of my people were the chains on
me.I knew that the oppressor must be liberated
just as surely as theoppressed.

19. A man who takes away another man’s freedom is
a prisoner of hatred; he is locked behind the bars
of prejudice andnarrow-mindedness.

20. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone
else’sfreedom, just as surely as I am not free
when my freedom is taken fromme.

21. The oppressed and the oppressor
alike are robbed of theirhumanity.

22. IN A NUTSHELL
•It can be inferred from the ‘Long Walk to Freedom’ that any person can reach
heights irrespective of their race. So, people should not be discriminated
against on any basis.
•This Chapter presents Nelson Mandela’s opinion from his speech, his freedom
struggles and about countless people who had involved in the freedom
struggle. It also talks of his part in the apartheid struggle.
•In fact, Apartheid is a brutal practice that was followed in 'South Africa' which
discriminates black people and denies most of their rights.