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NCERT Class X English: Chapter 2 – Nelson mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

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NCERT Class X English: Chapter 2 - Nelson mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

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National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) Book for Class X

Subject: English

Chapter: Chapter 2 – Nelson mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Class X NCERT English Text Book Chapter 2 – Nelson mandela: Long Walk to Freedom is given below.

BEFORE YOU READ

‘Apartheid’ is a political system that separates people according to their race. Can you say which of the three countries named below had such a political system until very recently?

(i) North America (ii) South Africa (iii)Australia

Have you heard of Nelson Mandela? Mandela, and his African National Congress, spent a lifetime fighting against apartheid. Mandela had to spend thirty years in prison. Finally, democratic elections were held in South Africa in 1994, and Mandela became the first black President of a new nation.

In this extract from his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom,Mandela speaks about a historic occasion, ‘the inauguration’. Can you guess what the occasion might be? Check your guess with this news item (from the BBC) of 10 May 1994.

Mandela Becomes South Africa’s First Black 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. “Never, never again will this beautiful land

experience the oppression of one by another, ” said Nelson

Mandela in his address.

… Jubilant scenes on the streets of Pretoria followed the

ceremony with blacks, whites and coloureds celebrating

together… More than 100,000 South African men, women

and children of all races sang and danced with joy.