Nelson Mandela Interview (1990)
AfroMarxist
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In a 1990 interview, Nelson Mandela answers a multitude of questions from various reporters on the economic and social futures of a new South Africa in the wake of the negotiations between the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African government in order to dismantle apartheid. Mandela answers questions on extremist groups, black on black political violence, Western expectations of political alliance, gender equality and representation, and international sanctions against apartheid. He also discusses his views on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and the potential end of the Cold War and their effects on Western investment in Africa.
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Nelson Mandela Interview (1990)
AfroMarxist
148,887 views
In a 1990 interview, Nelson Mandela answers a multitude of questions from various reporters on the economic and social futures of a new South Africa in the wake of the negotiations between the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African government in order to dismantle apartheid. Mandela answers questions on extremist groups, black on black political violence, Western expectations of political alliance, gender equality and representation, and international sanctions against apartheid. He also discusses his views on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and the potential end of the Cold War and their effects on Western investment in Africa.
Mandela changed his "no timetable" script as soon as SACP general secretary Chris Hani was assassinated, because masses of people weren't going to keep watching the slow, unproductive deliberations any further. Mandela knew it, but so did de Klerk. And again more hindsight, because Hani's assassination seemed like a tragic outlier until the campaign to destroy Winnie Mandela succeeded, so then with the two successors to lead out of the way, the new direction of the post-apartheid government was clear, and the last 30 years has sadly borne this out. In fact, talk at the time was that Mandela was too old, had had tuberculosis in prison, so Chris Hani was to be the first post-apartheid president, followed by Winnie Mandela. These were the undisputed, respected leaders of the struggle.