The school is located near the South African border; it was attended by the sons of Desmond Tutu
and Nelson Mandela
during Apartheid. Nadine Gordimer
's son Hugo Cassirer
was also a student there. Anna...
Textual Production
Hélène Cixous
CH published Manne: aux Mandelstams aux Mandelas, a text about three disparate people linked by the opening of their surnames: South African politicians Winnie
and Nelson Mandela
, and Russian poet Osip Mandelstam
.
Running-Johnson, Cynthia. “Cixous’s Left and Right Hands of Writing in <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="m">Tambours sur la digue</span> and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Osnabrück</span>”;. French Forum, Vol.
RC
planned a book-length study or biography of Nelson Mandela
(similar to that of Princess Diana
), but instead she contributed interviews to Mandela: The Authorised Portrait by Mac Maharaj
and A. M. Kathrada
...
Gillian Slovo
, who grew up in these circles, recognized the family: their heroism and their...
Reception
Nadine Gordimer
This book's reception was polarized along political lines. The Soweto riots (which began three years before this novel appeared) were a factor when it was banned. When the ban was lifted in 1980, NG
was...
Cultural formation
Jackie Kay
In the absence of any black people around her while she was growing up in Scotland, JK
invented fantasy relationships with well-known black people from around the world such as Nelson Mandela
, Ella Fitzgerald
Levy, Norman. The Final Prize. My Life in the Anti-apartheid Struggle. South African History Online.
317, 382
, while Deborah was...
Textual Features
Naomi Mitchison
A key figure in it is Nelson Mandela
, then in prison.
Travel
Dervla Murphy
The bicycle trip through Africa (four months that took her from Kenya through Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, and Zambia to Zimbabwe) that turned out to be an investigation into AIDS was first...
Textual Production
Dervla Murphy
This book maintains DM
's habit of noticing the seldom noticed: here the culture of poor whites, publicly parading with appeals for work, most of them drunk or stoned. The amount of information and cogitation...
Family and Intimate relationships
Gillian Slovo
From 1961 the lawyer Joe Slovo became deeply involved in a campaign of violent sabotage against the South African apartheid government. He and Nelson Mandelabecame the initial high command for the new army—Umkhonto we Sizwe
Family and Intimate relationships
Gillian Slovo
In 1987, some years after Ruth First was killed, Joe married Helena Dolny
, a woman with two children.
Slovo, Gillian. Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country. Little, Brown.
157, 222
At the crest of his life's work, in mid-August 1991 he informed his daughters...
Literary responses
Gillian Slovo
H. Jack Geiger
wrote in the New York Times: Three themes dominate in this painful (and somewhat disjointed) record: secrecy, perceived abandonment and the rage it engenders, and ambivalence. For him its moving moment...
Timeline
1810: Saartjie Baartman, later known as the Hottentot...
Building item
1810
Saartjie Baartman
, later known as the Hottentot Venus, sailed from Cape Town in South Africa for London, where she had been led to believe she could make her fortune by exhibiting herself.
Up to 5 August 1962: Nelson Mandela travelled round many African...
National or international item
Up to 5 August 1962
Nelson Mandela
travelled round many African countries raising support for the struggle against the apartheid government in South Africa. On this date he was arrested, charged with leaving the country illegally, and imprisoned.
11 February 1990: Nelson Mandela was freed from the South African...
National or international item
11 February 1990
Nelson Mandela
was freed from the South African prison where he had been held for twenty-eight years; a few years later, in April 1994, he became the first president of the new, non-apartheid, South Africa.
27-29 April 1994: The first democratic general election in...
National or international item
27-29 April 1994
The first democratic general election in South Africa made Nelson Mandela
the first president of the new, non-apartheid, republic.
Texts
Coward, Rosalind et al. Diana: The Portrait. Andrews McMeel, 2004, p. 368 pp.