When Mandela danced in the square – Lessons for young citizens from the Scottish anti-apartheid movement Section 2: Life of Nelson Mandela 1. What were the significant events in Nelson Mandela’s life? GC aspects Read introduction to Mandela’s life. Give • Human Rights different reading extracts to groups of learners • Social Justice and Equity with a focus on a different aspect of Mandela’s life. Ask learners to use highlighters to identify SDGs and UNCRC links key information. In same groups learners then • Goal 10, 16 carry out online research on their aspect of • Article 2, 7 Mandela’s life. Es and Os Support groups to creatively present their LIT 2-16a learning about the aspect of Mandela’s life LIT 3-16a they focussed on, in chronological order. This can be in any form chosen by learners but Suggested LIs should not take longer than 2 minutes. ▶ Toidentifykeyinformationinboth Support peers to ask questions and give oral print and online material. feedback to each other. ▶ Tocollaborativelycreateapresentation Ask learners to order the timeline cards, either of learning. in groups or as a whole class display. Connect these with the images from the first lesson in What you need Section 1. Mandela’s speech (YouTube) IntroductiontoMandela’slife Say, make, write, do and reading extracts 1-6(pages 31-33) Can learners: Timeline cards(pages 34-35) • distinguish between most relevant info and less important detail within source material? Activities • cooperatetocreateashortpresentation Show learners the short clip of Mandela’s of findings? speech when sentenced to life imprisonment as an initial stimulus. Take it further Ask learners how listening to Mandela’s speech ▶ Use detail from Mandela’s life made them feel.What questions come into their to explore fact and fiction in minds? Discuss what pupils know of him and this activity fromStride magazine what he did. Do they have any sense of his legacy or connection to Glasgow? 30 Section 2: Life of Nelson Mandela / What were the significant events in Nelson Mandela’s life? Section 2: Life of Nelson Mandela / What were the significant events in Nelson Mandela’s life? When Mandela danced in the square – Lessons for young citizens from the Scottish anti-apartheid movement Introduction to Mandela’s life and reading extracts 1-6 Mandela’s life (for reading to learners) Nelson Mandela was born Rolihlahla Mandela into the Madiba clan in the village of Mvezo, in the Eastern Cape. His mother was Nonqaphi Nosekeni and his father was Nkosi Mphakanyiswa Gadla Mandela, principal counsellor to the Acting King of theThembu people, Jongintaba Dalindyebo. From https://www.nelsonmandela.org/content/page/biography Extract 1: Childhood As a young boy he was tall for his age, and was a fast runner. He hunted buck and, when hungry, stole mealie cobs from the maize fields. He loved the countryside with its grassy rolling hills and the stream which flowed eastward to the Indian Ocean. At night, under Africa's brilliant stars, everyone used to gather around a big open fire to listen to the elders of the tribe. The boy was fascinated by the tales told by these bearded old men. Tales about the 'good old days before the coming of the white man', and tales about the brave acts performed by their ancestors, in defending their country against the European invaders. Those tales, said Mandela many years later when he was on trial for his life, stirred in him a desire to serve his people in their struggle to be free. A desire which eventually led to his becoming the most famous political prisoner of our time – a prisoner with songs written about him and streets named after him. How appropriate that Nelson Mandela's Xhosa name, Rolihlahla, means 'stirring up trouble'.When Nelson first went to school - a school for African pupils – it was a shock to find the history books described only white heroes, and referred to his people as savages and cattle thieves. From‘A desire to serve the people’by Mary Benson Extract 2: School On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school.This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture. Africans of my generation– and even today – generally have both an English and an African name.Whites were either unable or unwilling to pronounce an African name, and considered it uncivilized to have one. That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name was Nelson.Why she bestowed this particular name upon me I have no idea. Perhaps it had something to do with the great British sea captain Lord Nelson, but that would be only a guess. Extract from‘A Long Walk to Freedom’Mandela’s Autobiography Section 2: Life of Nelson Mandela / What were the significant events in Nelson Mandela’s life? Section 2: Life of Nelson Mandela / What were the significant events in Nelson Mandela’s life? 31 When Mandela danced in the square – Lessons for young citizens from the Scottish anti-apartheid movement Reading extracts Extract 3: University and becoming a lawyer MANDELA ANDTAMBO said the brass plate on our office door. We practised as attorneys- at-law in Johannesburg in a shabby building across the street from the Magistrates' Court. Chancellor House in Fox Street was one of the few buildings in which African tenants could hire offices.MANDELA ANDTAMBO was written huge across the frosted window panes on the second floor, and the letters stood out like a challenge.To white South Africa it was bad enough that two men with black skins should practise as lawyers, but it was indescribably worse that the letters also spelled out our political partnership. Nelson and I were both born in theTranskei, he one year after me.We were students together at Fort Hare University College. With others we had founded the African National CongressYouth League. We went together into the Defiance Campaign of 1952, into general strikes against the Government and sat in the sameTreasonTrial dock. Extract from‘No EasyWalk to Freedom’– Nelson Mandela by O.RTambo Extract4:TheAfricanNationalCongress and becoming an activist In 1952 the African National Congress organised South Africa’s first nationwide protest against apartheid.The year before the ANC had called for the repeal of six particularly unjust laws.The meeting lasted for three days. Mandela, Sisulu and other members of theYouth League proposed that it was time to confront the government. Unless the government repealed the six unjust laws by April 6, 1952, a campaign of defiance would begin.Volunteers would be organised to defy the oppressive laws – to be called the Defiance Campaign. Mandela recruited 8,577 volunteers. Some wore armbands with the green, gold and black colours of the ANC flag. Black for the people, green for the land and gold for the resources.They set out to use the whites only entrances to railway stations, waiting rooms and post offices, they ignored curfews, entered areas that were forbidden and refused to present their passbooks. For Nelson Mandela, it was his first experience with real political action. It was also the first time he had been arrested and banned. The struggle had begun. Extract from: Nelson Mandela – No EasyWalk to Freedom 32 Section 2: Life of Nelson Mandela / What were the significant events in Nelson Mandela’s life? Section 2: Life of Nelson Mandela / What were the significant events in Nelson Mandela’s life? When Mandela danced in the square – Lessons for young citizens from the Scottish anti-apartheid movement Reading extracts Extract 5: Being arrested At 1.30 in the morning, on March 30, 1956 I was awakened by sharp, unfriendly knocks at my door, the unmistakable signature of the police.“The time has come,”I said to myself as I opened the door to find half-a-dozen armed security policemen.They turned the house upside down, taking virtually every piece of paper they could find. I was then arrested without a warrant, and given no opportunity to call my lawyer.They refused to inform my wife as to where I was to be taken. I simply nodded atWinnie; it was no time for words of comfort. Near midnight, we were told we were to be called out, but for what we did not know. I was the first to be called and I was ushered over to the front gate of the prison where I was briefly released in front of a group of police officers. But before I could move, an officer shouted. “Name!”“Mandela,”I said.“Nelson Mandela,”the officer said,“I arrest you under the powers vested in me by the Emergency Regulations.”We were not to be released at all, but rearrested under the terms of what we only then discovered was a State of Emergency.We drafted a memorandum to the commander asking to know our rights. Extract from‘A Long Walk to Freedom’Mandela’s Autobiography Extract 6: Becoming president Nelson Mandela has become South Africa's first black president after more than three centuries of white rule. Mr Mandela's African National Congress (ANC) party won 252 of the 400 seats in the first democratic elections of South Africa's history. The inauguration ceremony took place in the Union Buildings amphitheatre in Pretoria today, attended by politicians and dignitaries from more than 140 countries around the world.