‘I am prepared to die’: Mandela’s speech which shook apartheid

http://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/4/20/i-am-prepared-to-die-when-mandela-shook-apartheid-changed-south-africa
Date Written:  2024-04-20
Publisher:  Al Jazeera
Year Published:  2024
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX25167

Sixty years ago during the Rivonia Trial in South Africa, Nelson Mandela delivered one of the most famous speeches of the 20th century. He expected to be sentenced to death but instead lived to see his dream ‘of a democratic and free society’ realised.