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  16. Mandela to Richard Stengel

  17. Mandela, letter to Amanda Kwadi, Orlando, May 12, 1986

  18. Jail Memoir

  19. SAIRR, A Survey of Race Relations in South Africa, 1977, p. 119

  20. Star, April 26, 1977; New York Times, April 27, 1977

  21. South African Panorama, July 1977

  22. Amnesty International, Political Imprisonment in South Africa, p. 83; The Times, April 26, 1977

  23. The Times, April 26, 1977; Maharaj, comments on text

  24. J. Schadeberg, op. cit., p. 27

  25. Lodge and Nasson, op. cit., p. 308

  26. Lekota, interview with author, Feb. 8, 1997

  27. Lekota, op. cit., p. ii

  28. Molobi, interview with author, June 27, 1997

  29. J. Schadeberg, op. cit., p. 45

  30. Kathrada, interview with author, Jan. 26, 1996

  31. Sunday Independent, June 25, 1995

  32. Nair, interview with author, Feb. 20, 1997

  33. Molobi, interview with author, June 27, 1997

  34. Karis and Gerhart, Vol. 5, op. cit., p. 297

  35. Sunday Independent, June 25, 1995

  36. Mandela, “Message on the Death of Themba Harry Gwala,” June 20, 1995; Sisulu, interview with author, Nov. 25, 1996

  37. G. Mbeki, Learning from Robben Island, op. cit., pp. vii, xxi

  38. Morobe, interview with author, Feb. 7, 1997

  39. G. Mbeki, Learning from Robben Island, op. cit., p. xxiii

  40. Buntman, op. cit., p. 187

  41. Kathrada, interview with author, Nov. 27, 1995

  42. Sisulu, interview with author, Jan. 25, 1996

  43. Long Walk, p. 510

  44. Molobi, interview with author, June 27, 1997

  45. Kathrada, op. cit.; G. Mbeki, Learning from Robben Island, op. cit., pp. 178–80

  46. Kathrada, op. cit.

  47. G. Mbeki, Learning from Robben Island, op. cit., pp. 178–87

  48. Ibid., pp. 187, 196

  49. Kathrada, op. cit.

  50. G. Mbeki, Learning from Robben Island, op. cit., p. xxiii

  51. Kathrada, interview with author, Jan. 31, 1996

  52. G. Mbeki, Learning from Robben Island, op. cit., p. xxii

  53. Kathrada, interview with author, Feb. 7, 1997

  54. Kathrada, op. cit.; Sechaba, July 1969

  55. Long Walk, p. 580; Molobi, interview with author, June 27, 1997

  56. Seakhoa, interview with author, Nov. 29, 1995

  57. Sisulu, interview with author, Jan. 25, 1996

  58. Kathrada, op. cit.; Mandela, covering note to Kathrada, Summary

  59. Venkatrathnam, interview for Menell and Gibson, Mandela (film)

  60. Karis and Gerhart, Vol. 5, op. cit., p. 57

  61. Oscar Wilde, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” (1898)

  62. Weekly Mail, Oct. 20, 1989; Kathrada, letter to Eddie Daniels, July 22, 1989

  63. Molobi, interview with author, June 27, 1997

  64. Lekota, interview with author, Feb. 8, 1997

  65. Seakhoa, interview with author, Nov. 29, 1995

  66. Motlana, interview for Menell and Gibson, Mandela (film); Motlana, interview with author, June 26, 1997; W. Mandela, op. cit., p. 130

  67. W. Mandela, op. cit., p. 131

  68. Frank Schmidt et al., ICRC Report on Visit to Robben Island, March 29–April 2, 1977

  69. Mandela to Richard Stengel

  70. Motlana, interview with author, Oct. 19, 1996

  71. Mandela, letters to W. Mandela, May 27, 1979, Sept. 2, 1979

  72. Long Walk, p. 601

  73. Mandela, letter to Sheila Weinberg, 1978; Mandela, letter to “Our Dear Reggie” (Tambo), 1978

  74. New York Times, July 19, 1978; United Nations Centre Against Apartheid Notes and Documents, “Observance of Mr. Nelson R. Mandela’s Sixtieth Birthday,” August 1978

  75. The Times, July 19, 1978

  76. Mandela, letter to W. Mandela, June 1, 1980; Long Walk, p. 585

  77. Mandela, letter to W. Mandela, March 1, 1981

  78. Long Walk, p. 595; Mandela, letter to Sheila Weinberg, 1978

  79. Sunday Independent, June 25, 1995

  80. Mandela, letter to Nthato Motlana, 1980

  81. Maharaj, interview with author, March 16, 1999

  82. Mandela, “Black Consciousness Movement,” op. cit.

  83. Jannie Roux, letter to Minister of Prisons, June 12, 1980 (Prison Records)

  84. “Security Prisoner Nelson Mandela: Background,” Feb. 12, 1981 (Justice Archive)

  85. H. J. Coetsee, “Nelson Mandela,” March 23, 1981 (Justice Archive)

  21 A Family Apart: 1977–1980

  1. Mandela, letters to W. Mandela, undated and Jan. 21, 1979

  2. Buntman, op. cit., p. 247

  3. Benson, Nelson Mandela, pp. 187, 165

  4. W. Mandela, op. cit., p. 116; Motlana, interview for Menell and Gibson, Mandela (film)

  5. W. Mandela, op. cit., pp. 116–17

  6. Kathrada, comments on text; Gregory, op. cit., p. 170–1

  7. Long Walk, p. 586

  8. Mandela, letter to Zindzi Mandela, Sept. 4, 1977

  9. Mandela to Richard Stengel

  10. W. Mandela, op. cit., p. 127

  11. Benson, Nelson Mandela, p. 170

  12. Ibid., pp. 68–9

  13. Meer, op. cit., p. 306

  14. Mandela to Richard Stengel

  15. Allister Sparks, Tomorrow Is Another Country: The Inside Story of South Africa’s Negotiated Revolution, pp. 17–20

  16. Mandela, interview for Menell and Gibson, Mandela (film); Long Walk, p. 590

  17. Mandela, letters to W. Mandela, June 26, 1977, June 10, 1979, Oct. 1, 1979

  18. W. Mandela, op. cit., p. 137

  19. Mandela, letters to W. Mandela, Jan. 21, 1979, June 29, 1980, Dec. 1, 1976

  20. Observer, Jan. 1982

  21. Mandela, letters to W. Mandela, May 6, 1979, July 21, 1979, Feb. 3, 1980, June 28, 1980, April 15, 1980

  22. Mandela, letter to Zindzi Mandela, Sept. 4, 1977

  23. Mandela, letter to W. Mandela, Sept. 2, 1979

  24. Benson, Nelson Mandela, pp. 185–6

  25. Mandela, letter to W. Mandela, June 1, 1980

  26. Kuzwayo, op. cit., p. 247

  27. Observer, Jan. 1982; Gilbey, op. cit., p. 134

  28. Mandela, letter to W. Mandela, Sept. 9, 1979

  29. Kathrada, Star, July 17, 1998

  30. Mandela, letter to Zindzi Mandela, Sept. 4, 1977

  31. Mandela, letter to W. Mandela, July 29, 1979

  32. Long Walk, p. 588

  33. Mandela, letter to Zeni Mandela, Oct. 30, 1977; Long Walk, p. 589

  34. Mandela, letter to Helen Joseph, Oct. 15, 1978

  35. Mandela, letter to W. Mandela, Sept. 26, 1979

  36. W. Mandela, op. cit., p. 136

  37. Mandela, letter to a friend, Jan. 1, 1976

  38. Mandela, letters to Zindzi Mandela, Oct. 30, 1977, March 5, 1978, Sept. 4, 1977

  39. Zindzi Mandela, Black As I Am, p. 14

  40. Mandela, letter to Zindzi Mandela, Jan. 27, 1980

  41. Mandela, letter to W. Mandela, May 6, 1979

  42. Mandela, letters to Zindzi Mandela, Dec. 1979, Feb. 3, 1979, March 25, 1979

  43. Independent on Sunday, Jan. 3, 1993

  44. Mandela, letters to W. Mandela, Feb. 10, 1980, June 1, 1980

  45. Meer, op. cit., p. 371

  46. Mandela, letters to Maki Mandela, Dec. 31, 1978, Feb. 1979, June 8, 1978

  47. Mandela, letter to W. Mandela, Nov. 19, 1978

  48. Mandela, letters to Maki Mandela, Dec. 31, 1978, Nov. 26, 1978, June 8, 1978

  49. The Times, Nov. 3, 1998

  50. Mandela, interview for Menell and Gibson, Mandela (film)

  51. Ibid.

  52. Mandela, letter to W. Mandela, undated

  53. Mkawanazi, Weekly Mail, August 23, 1987

  22 Prison Within a Prison: 1978–1982
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br />   1. Mandela, letter to Sheila Weinberg, 1978

  2. Mandela, letter to Rhadi Singh, 1979

  3. Mandela, letter to A. Tambo, Dec. 7, 1980

  4. Mandela, letter to O. Tambo, 1978

  5. Sisulu, “National Liberation” (unpublished essay), 1977

  6. Mandela and Raymond Mhlaba, letter to “Reggie” (O. Tambo), 1978

  7. Long Walk, p. 484; Venkatrathnam, interview for Menell and Gibson, Mandela (film)

  8. Karis and Gerhart, Vol. 5, op. cit., p. 256

  9. Mandela, letter to A. Tambo, Dec. 1, 1980

  10. Mandela, letter to Dr. Michael Kelly, 1980

  11. Karis and Gerhart, Vol. 5, op. cit., p. 675

  12. Lodge, op. cit., p. 351

  13. Karis and Gerhart, Vol. 5, op. cit., pp. 256, 264–5

  14. Lodge, op. cit., p. 352

  15. Mandela, letter to Chief Buthelezi, 1978; Mandela and Raymond Mhlaba, letter to “Reggie” (O. Tambo), 1978

  16. Karis and Gerhart, Vol. 5, op. cit., pp. 257, 273–4, 79–80

  17. [Johannesburg] Sunday Post, April 30, 1980

  18. Mandela, letter to Bishop Tutu, 1980

  19. Mandela, letter to Dr. Gkubule, 1980

  20. Mandela, letter to Sam Buti, 1980

  21. Mandela, letter to Morenaka, 1980

  22. Mandela, letter to Dr. Masire, July 1980

  23. Mandela, letter to Mrs. Bhalla, Aug. 3, 1980

  24. Tambo, op. cit., p. 197; Dingake, op. cit., p. 170

  25. Mandela, letter to A. Tambo, 1980

  26. S.A. Consul General, Glasgow, report, “Nelson Mandela: Freedom of the City of Glasgow,” to Director-General Foreign Affairs and Information, Pretoria, Feb. 8, 1981 (Justice Archive)

  27. Mandela, letter to Dr. Michael Kelly, 1980

  28. UN and Apartheid, op. cit., pp. 39, 347; Security Council Resolution: The Question of South Africa (S/RES/417 [1977]), Oct. 31, 1977

  29. Black and Gold, p. 125

  30. David Owen, Face the Future, p. 144; David Scott, Ambassador in Black and White: Thirty Years of Changing Africa, p. 195

  31. O’Meara, op. cit., pp. 229–49

  32. Mandela, “National Liberation,” op. cit.

  33. Sisulu, “National Liberation,” op. cit.

  34. “The Black Labor Problem: South Africa’s Achilles Heel” (declassified CIA document), Africa Review, Sept. 2, 1980

  35. Mandela, letter to Dr. Michael Kelly, 1980

  36. Sechaba, Fourth Quarter, 1977

  37. Karis and Gerhart, Vol. 5, op. cit., pp. 302, 304–5, 724

  38. [Johannesburg] Sunday Post, March 9, 1980; Long Walk, p. 602–3

  39. Benson, Nelson Mandela, p. 182

  40. [Johannesburg] Sunday Express, April 20, 1980

  41. Benson, Nelson Mandela, p. 184

  42. Report on Mandela, stamped by Secretary of the State Security Council, May 18, 1982; see also file on the “Free Mandela” campaign (Prison Records, Vol. 22)

  43. Benson, Nelson Mandela, p. 183

  44. Guardian, June 11, 1980; Morning Star, June 11, 1980

  45. Karis and Gerhart, Vol. 5, op. cit., p. 305

  46. Mandela, letters to O. Tambo, 1980, 1981

  47. Lodge, op. cit., pp. 339–40

  48. Sir Charles Powell, conversation with author, Oct. 3, 1996

  49. Chester Crocker, High Noon in Southern Africa: Making Peace in a Rough Neighborhood, pp. 328, 66; Jacob Heilbrunn, “Apologists Without Remorse: American Conservatives on South Africa,” American Prospect, Jan.–Feb. 1998

  50. P. W. Botha, interview with author, March 2, 1998

  51. David Lamb, The Africans, p. 109

  52. Kathrada, interview with author, Jan. 31, 1996

  53. Molobi, interview with author, June 27, 1997

  54. Mandela, letter to Zindzi Mandela, July 10, 1978

  55. Jail Memoir

  56. Molobi, interview with author, June 27, 1997; Kathrada, comments on text

  57. Davidson, interview with author, Oct. 15, 1996

  58. Sisulu, “National Liberation,” op. cit.

  23 Insurrection: 1982–1985

  1. W. Mandela, op. cit., p. 142

  2. Kathrada, letter to Genghis (Eddie Daniels’ dog), July 22, 1989

  3. Long Walk, p. 613

  4. W. Mandela, op. cit., pp. 141–2

  5. Buntman, op. cit., p. 319

  6. Kathrada, letter to Essop Jassat, June 2, 1985

  7. Kathrada, letter to Sonia Bunting, undated

  8. Helen Suzman, letter to Kobie Coetsee, July 4, 1982 (Prison Records)

  9. Ismail Ayob, letter to Minister of Prisons, August 16, 1983; Mandela, letter to Head of Prison, Feb. 2, 1988 (Prison Records)

  10. Mandela, letter to Fatima Meer, June 1983

  11. Mandela, letter to Lwezi Vintela, Feb. 6, 1984

  12. Mandela, letter to Brigadier Munro, Feb. 25, 1983

  13. Long Walk, pp. 614–15

  14. Mandela, letter to Lionel Ngakane, June 11, 1984

  15. Kathrada, letter to Zohra, Sept. 1985

  16. Mandela, letter to Mrs. Perlman, Sept. 5, 1983

  17. Mandela, letter to Peter Storey, June 11, 1984

  18. Mandela, letter to Stephen Naidoo, March 4, 1985

  19. Mandela, letter to Sheikh Gabier, March 4, 1985; Ahmed Kathrada, comments on text

  20. Mandela, letter to Sister Bernard Ncube, undated

  21. Mandela, letter to Kepu Mkentane, Feb. 25, 1987

  22. Amina Cachalia, letter to Mandela, undated; Mandela, letters to Amina Cachalia, May 29, 1983, March 1, 1988

  23. Mandela, letter to Kepu Mkentane, April 24, 1984

  24. Mandela, letter to Barney Ngakane, June 11, 1984

  25. Mandela, letter to Joy, Feb. 17, 1986

  26. Mandela, letters to W. Mandela, March 31, 1983, May 13, 1985

  27. Mandela, letter to Adelaide Joseph, Feb. 25, 1985

  28. Mandela, letter to Arthur Glickman, Jan. 31, 1985

  29. Mandela, letter to Effie Schultz, April 1, 1985

  30. Mandela, letter to Lionel Ngakane, June 11, 1984

  31. Mandela, letter to a friend, May 17, 1983

  32. Mandela, letter to Connie Njongwe, May 14, 1984

  33. Mandela, letter to Mary Benson, May 13, 1985

  34. Mandela, letter to Adie Joseph, Feb. 25, 1985

  35. Mandela, letter to Helen Joseph, April 1, 1987

  36. G. Mbeki, Sunset at Midday, p. 50; Buntman, op. cit., p. 247

  37. Jeremy Seekings, “What Was the United Democratic Front?” (unpublished seminar paper), 1994; see also Jeremy Seekings, “The Fragile Front: The United Democratic Front and the Referendum Issue, 1983–84” (unpublished seminar paper), 1993

  38. Lodge and Nasson, op. cit., p. 51

  39. Sisulu, interview with Houser and Shore, op. cit.

  40. Mbeki, Sunset at Midday, p. 54

  41. Black and Gold, pp. 151–2

  42. Sechaba, May 1984; Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley, South Africa Without Apartheid: Dismantling Racial Domination, p. 250

  43. Long Walk, p. 618

  44. Seekings, “What Was the United Democratic Front?,” op. cit.

  45. Mandela, letters to Benjamin Pogrund, Jan. 30, 1984, Oct. 22, 1985; Pogrund, interview with author, Oct. 22, 1996

  46. H. W. van der Merwe, Report on Visit to Nelson Mandela, Oct. 11, 1984 (University of Cape Town Archive)

  47. Nicholas Bethell, Mail on Sunday, Jan. 27, 1985; Nicholas Bethell, Spies and Other Secrets, pp. 211–15, 218, 220

  48. Samuel Dash, New York Times, July 17, 1985

  49. Mandela, letter to Samuel Dash, May 12, 1986

  50. General Willemse, minute to Minister of Prisons, April–May 1985 (Prison Records)

  51. Black and Gold, p. 160

  52. Message of the NEC of the ANC, Jan. 8, 1985

  53. Sisulu, interview with author, Jan. 25, 1996

  54. Harry Oppenheimer, conversation with author, Aug. 8, 1997

  55. Sparks, op. cit., pp. 49
–50

  56. Mandela, “I Am Not Prepared to Sell the Birthright of the People to Be Free,” Feb. 10, 1985, in Johns and Hunt Davis, op. cit., pp. 214–5

  57. Lekota, op. cit., p. 194

  58. Oliver Tambo, letter to Mandela, undated

  59. Allister Sparks, The Death of Apartheid (film, 1994, directed by Mick Gold)

  60. Black and Gold, p. 161

  61. Mail & Guardian, Feb. 2, 1996

  62. Mandela, letter to Kaiser Matanzima, Dec. 29, 1984

  63. Mandela, letter to Fatima Meer, Feb. 25, 1985

  64. Mandela, letter to Kaiser Matanzima, May 19, 1986

  65. Kaiser Matanzima, letter to Mandela, Sept. 19, 1986

  66. Leach, South Africa: No Easy Path to Peace, p. 174

  67. Black and Gold, p. 178

  68. George Soros, conversation with author, June 30, 1998

  69. Black and Gold, p. 32

  70. Mandela, interview with author, Feb. 21, 1990

  71. Sisulu, interview with author, Feb. 9, 1990

  72. The Sampson Letter, Feb. 4, 1986

  73. Crocker, op. cit., p. 275

  74. New York Times, Aug. 16, 1995

  75. Roelof F. (Pik) Botha, “His South Africa Connection,” in Hans d’Orville (ed.), Leadership for Africa: In Honor of Olusegun Obasanjo on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, p. 57; Black and Gold, p. 32

  76. F. W. de Klerk, letter to author, Dec. 9, 1996; P. W. Botha, interview with author, March 2, 1998

  77. Public Opinion, August 1985

  78. Star, Aug. 22, 1985

  79. Washington Times, Aug. 22, 1985

  80. Black and Gold, pp. 33, 193–5, 198–200

  81. Ibid., p. 40

  82. Powell, conversation with author, Oct. 3, 1996

  83. See also Geoffrey Howe, Conflict of Loyalty, p. 479

  84. Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, p. 515; Powell, conversation with author, Jan. 7, 1997; P. W. Botha, interview with author, March 2, 1998

  85. Sparks, op. cit., p. 33; Howe, op. cit., p. 483

  86. Kathrada, letter to Zohra, Sept. 28, 1985

  87. Kathrada, letter to Shehneez Meer, Feb. 23, 1986

  88. Gregory, op. cit., pp. 250, 156; Motlana, interview with author, June 27, 1996

  89. Sparks, op. cit., pp. 21, 24–25, 32

  90. Mandela, letter to Ayesha, March 19, 1996

  91. Mandela, letter to Connie Njongwe, May 12, 1986

  92. Adam and Moodley, op. cit., p. 282

  93. Weekly Mail, Dec. 6, 1985, Feb. 7–14, 1986

  94. Kathrada, letter to Shehneez Meer, Feb. 23, 1986

  95. Mandela, letters to W. Mandela, Feb. 2, 1986, April 4, 1986

 

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