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"I Am Prepared to Die" was a three-hour speech given by Nelson Mandela on 20 April 1964 from the dock at the Rivonia Trial. [1] The speech is so titled because it ended with the words "it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die".
In 1990, 11 February; Nelson Mandela was released after spending 27 years and eight months in prison as a result of the Rivonia trial (18 years of which were spent on Robben Island). He was released by order of President F. W. de Klerk .
According to Nelson Mandela, all of the founding members of the uMkhonto weSizwe, including himself, were also members of the ANC. In his " I Am Prepared to Die " speech, delivered at the conclusion of the Rivonia Trial , Mandela outlined the motivations that led to the formation of uMkhonto weSizwe: [ 4 ]
Nelson Mandela's father, Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa Mandela, was a local chief and councillor to the monarch; ... — Mandela's Rivonia Trial Speech, 1964 [137] [138]
Conversations With Myself is a 2010 collection of Nelson Mandela's speeches, letters, conversation and some of his publications. [1] It is a continuation of his 1994 book Long Walk to Freedom . Reception
Nelson Mandela, since the 1950s [7] [14] Trevor Huddleston of Sophiatown, 1950s [7] Mac Maharaj in the Little Rivonia Trial [7] Govan Mbeki in the Rivonia Trial in 1963–64 [7] Walter Sisulu in the Rivonia Trial in 1963–64, and afterwards his wife [7] Ahmed Timol's family, regarding his death in detention in 1971 [7]
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However, Mandela was shortly thereafter sentenced to life imprisonment for sabotage in what was known as the "Rivonia Trial", by Justice Dr Quartus de Wet, instead of a possible death sentence. (p. 159) Nelson Mandela's prison cell on Robben Island. Mandela describes prison time on Robben Island and Pollsmoor Prison.