Nelson Mandela: The Official Exhibition Learning Resources FURTHER RESOURCES

Websites Books Good Morning, Mr Mandela The insider’s view of life with the world’s The Foundation Long Walk to Freedom most famous man, by his long-term aide, The foundation was founded by Nelson Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, written in Zelda la Grange. Mandela in 1999. They are the custodian of his secret during his imprisonment on Robben life and times, facilitator of his living legacy, Island and published soon after he became Truth and Lies: Stories from the Truth and and committed to promoting his lifelong vision South Africa’s first Black President. Reconciliation Commission in South Africa of freedom and equality for all. Photographer Jillian Edelstein’s compelling https://www.nelsonmandela.org Nelson Mandela: By Himself portraits and stories of the victims and A book of quotations from Nelson Mandela perpetrators of apartheid. South Africa History Online himself, gathered from privileged authorised A comprehensive people’s history of South access to Mandela's vast personal archive and Africa, founded to address biases in the organised into categories such as Character, representation of South Africa’s history Courage, Optimism, Democracy, History, and heritage. Racism, Reconciliation and Unity. http://sahistory.org.za Young Mandela Robben Island Museum David James Smith’s revealing biography of http://www.robben-island.org.za/organisation Mandela’s life before prison.

Liliesleaf Mandela: My Prisoner, My Friend http://www.liliesleaf.co.za/ Former Robben Island prison officer Christo Brand’s autobiography, focusing on his The Elders remarkable friendship with Mandela in https://www.theelders.org/ prison and beyond. Mandela Day https://www.mandeladay.com/

Nelson Mandela at the South African Government http://www.mandela.gov.za/

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Films Extreme South Africa: cultural commentary documentary series with Reggie Yates Long Walk to Freedom • The White Slums The film adaptation of Nelson Mandela’s Reggie Yates spends a week in South autobiography, written in secret during his Africa's largest White squatter camp, imprisonment on Robben Island, directed by Coronation Park. Are young White Justin Chadwick and starring Idris Elba. South Africans now the ones being discriminated against? Invictus How Nelson Mandela used the 1995 Rugby • Knife Crime ER World Cup, which was hosted by South Africa, Reggie Yates spends a week at a Cape Town to help bring the country together after the hospital where, on any given weekend, the fall of apartheid. Based on the book Playing doctors deal with up to 100 stabbings and the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the game that assaults, with 80 per cent of those admitted made a nation by John Carlin, directed by under 25. and starring and . • The Millionaire Preacher Reggie Yates spends a week with Prophet Sarafina Mboro, a controversial self-styled prophet, A film centring on students involved in who is adored by thousands of followers in the Soweto Uprising in opposition to the his megachurch. implementation of Afrikaans as the ‘language https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/ of instruction’ in all South African schools. b03w79fx Miracle Rising A documentary following the dramatic events leading up to the landmark 1994 election. https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=IKDrRdfvUg8

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Art and artists David Goldblatt: photography Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin: David Goldblatt was a South African social documentary photography Capture photographer noted for his portrayal of South The artists Adam Broomberg and Oliver A 10-metre-tall monument, by Johannesburg Africa during the period of apartheid and more Chanarin spent a month in South Africa taking artist Marco Cianfanelli, located outside Durban recently the country's landscapes. He described pictures on decades-old film that had been and commissioned to mark 50 years since himself as a “self-appointed observer and critic engineered with only White faces in mind. Nelson Mandela’s capture and subsequent of the society into which I was born.” They used Polaroid's vintage ID-2 camera, imprisonment for 27 years. He lived in Johannesburg. which had a ‘boost’ button to increase the Interview with the artist: https://www.theguardian.com/ flash – enabling it to be used to photograph https://www.youtube.com/ artanddesign/2018/jul/06/david-goldblatt- Black people for the notorious passbooks that watch?v=QaeospPw2B4 obituary allowed the state to control their movements. Walking amongst the sculpture: https://www.theguardian.com/ This article shows one of his most https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWDsL- artanddesign/2013/jan/25/racism-colour- renowned images: 8wIWk photography-exhibition https://www.theguardian.com/ http://www.broombergchanarin.com/new- artanddesign/2018/jun/25/david-goldblatt- The Sartists page-1/ south-africa-dies-aged-87-photographer Andile Buka, Kabelo Kungwane, Wanda Lephoto and Xzavier Zulu are the faces Zanele Muholi: social documentary and storytellers behind the Sartists, a and activism photography Johannesburg-based multidisciplinary creative South African visual activist Zanele Muholi’s collective, formed to challenge ideas about ongoing self-portrait series Somnyama ‘Blackness’ in modern society. Ngonyama. In these photographs Muholi uses her body as a canvas to confront the politics http://www.the-sartists.com of race and representation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AwC- https://autograph.org.uk/exhibitions/ hTOJw0 somnyama-ngonyama-hail-the-dark-lioness http://www.ariatupublicrelations.com/news/ thesartists Note: Some of her other work is sexually oriented and not suitable for younger audiences

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