1. Where did the ceremonies take place?
2.What does Mandela thank the international leaders for?
3.Why were the two National Anthems sung? 4.What twin obligation does Mandela mention? 5.What ideas does he set out for the future of South Africa? Detail Questions
6.What do the military generals do? How has their attitude changed and why?
7.What did being free mean to Mandela as a boy and as a student? How does he contrast this freedom with basic and honorable freedom? ------------__________------------
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1. The ceremonies took place in the campus of the Union Building of Pretoria.
2. He thanks them for joining them in the common victory for peace,justice and human dignity.
3. Two national anthems were sung in order to symbolize blacks and whites becoming equal.
4. Mandela mentions that every man has twin obligations. The first is to his family, parents, wife, and children; the second obligation is to his people, his community and his country.
5. Mandela sets out the ideals of poverty alleviation, removal of suffering of people. He also dreams of a society where there would be no discrimination based on gender or racial origins.
6. The highest military generals of the South African defence force and police saluted Mandela and pledged their loyalty. When the military generals saluted Mandela, he was not unmindful of the fact that not too many years ago, they would not have saluted him, but arrested him. This change in attitude was due to the fact that a new, non-racial government was elected and Mandela was then the President of South Africa.
7. For Mandela, freedom had different meanings at different stages. As a boy, freedom meant to be able to run freely in the fields and to swim in the stream according to his will. As a student, freedom meant to stay out at nights, read whatever pleased him or go wherever he wanted. But later he realised that this sort of freedom was only an illusion. For him, the basis and honorable freedoms were-achieving his potential, earning his keep, marrying and having a family. These freedoms were more important for him when we was a young man