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Websites South Africa History Online A comprehensive people’s history of South The Nelson Mandela Foundation Africa, founded to address biases in the The foundation was founded by Nelson representation of South Africa’s history Mandela in 1999. They are the custodian of his and heritage. life and times, facilitator of his living legacy, http://sahistory.org.za and committed to promoting his lifelong vision of freedom and equality for all. Museum https://www.nelsonmandela.org http://www.robben-island.org.za/organisation

The Nelson Mandela Children's Fund Liliesleaf Established in 1995 by Nelson Mandela, the http://www.liliesleaf.co.za/ charity promotes and supports a humanitarian response to the plight and needs of children in The Elders South Africa. Through its work the lives of https://www.theelders.org/ many children and youths are improved. http://www.nelsonmandelachildrensfund.com/ Mandela Day https://www.mandeladay.com/ http://www.mandela-children.org.uk/ Nelson Mandela at the Anti Movement Archives South African Government https://www.aamarchives.org/ http://www.mandela.gov.za/

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Books Truth and Lies: Stories from the Truth and Journey to Jo'burg Reconciliation Commission in South Africa A classic inspirational story which tells of the Photographer Jillian Edelstein’s compelling resilience and courage of two young black Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, written in portraits and stories of the victims and children whose mission to find their mother is secret during his imprisonment on Robben perpetrators of apartheid. affected by the everyday realities of Island and published soon after he became apartheid. Beverley Naidoo's book continues South Africa’s first Black President. The Struggle is My Life to provokes important questions for young A collection of Nelson Mandela's writings and older readers alike. Nelson Mandela: By Himself and speeches, historical documents and A book of quotations from Nelson Mandela accounts of Mandela in prison by fellow Out of Bounds: Stories of Conflict and Hope himself, gathered from privileged authorised inmates. The title, The Struggle is My Life, A collection of short stories by Beverley access to Mandela's vast personal archive and comes from a letter Mandela wrote whilst Naidoo with foreword by Desmond Tutu. The organised into categories such as Character, in hiding in 1961 explaining his dedication stories offer multiple perspectives of life Courage, Optimism, Democracy, History, to the liberation struggle. under apartheid across five decades, Racism, Reconciliation and Unity. accompanied by a socio-political timeline. Young Mandela Nelson Mandela Speaks: Forging a Non- Young people are faced with choices that are David James Smith’s revealing biography of Racial Democratic South Africa tests of the human spirit. The narratives of Mandela’s life before prison. Speeches made by Mandela between 1990 Nelson Mandela and the struggle for equality and 1993, to audiences in South Africa and and justice are felt throughout. Mandela: My Prisoner, My Friend overseas, charting the course of political Former Robben Island prison officer Christo and social transformation in South Africa. The Forgiveness Project: Stories for a Brand’s autobiography, focusing on his Vengeful Age remarkable friendship with Mandela in prison Mandela: His Essential Life Powerful stories from survivors and and beyond. Peter Hain’s readable and succinct perpetrators of crime and violence, revealing biography of Mandela is written from the the very real impact of forgiveness on their Good Morning, Mr Mandela perspective of politics and friendship. Lord lives. The stories explore the possibility of The insider’s view of life with the world’s Hain is a South African exile and former alternatives to revenge and prompt the most famous man, by his long-term aide, anti-apartheid activist. question 'how can we define forgiveness?' Zelda la Grange. Includes stories from South Africa and a foreword from Desmond Tutu.

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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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