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eventREF E-0121037Revised

2 June 1986

Jailed ANC leader Nelson Mandela sends message to Mangosuthu Buthelezi

Updated
30 Sep 2019
Jailed ANC leader Nelson Mandela sends message to Mangosuthu Buthelezi

On 2 June, Nelson Mandela sent a message through his attorney after he had read media reports that Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi proposed to visit him in Pollsmoor Prison. The telegram said Nelson Mandela believed that the best time for them to meet was after he and his colleagues had been released from Jail. He also sent his greetings to Buthelezi thanking him for his efforts to set him free. Buthelezi read the telegram to KwaZulu -Natal legislative Assembly, which advised him to consider asking for government’s permission for visiting Nelson Mandela in prison.  

How we know this

  1. 01Saldru clipping,Mandela wants meeting Chief,Black politics 1986d

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

Cite this entry

South African History Online. (2016, May 25). Jailed ANC leader Nelson Mandela sends message to Mangosuthu Buthelezi. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0121037

South African History Online (2016) 'Jailed ANC leader Nelson Mandela sends message to Mangosuthu Buthelezi', South African History Online, 25 May. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0121037 (Accessed: 13 October 2026).

South African History Online, Jailed ANC leader Nelson Mandela sends message to Mangosuthu Buthelezi [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0121037, (accessed 13 October 2026).

"Jailed ANC leader Nelson Mandela sends message to Mangosuthu Buthelezi." South African History Online, 25 May 2016, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0121037. Accessed 13 Oct. 2026.

South African History Online. "Jailed ANC leader Nelson Mandela sends message to Mangosuthu Buthelezi." South African History Online. May 25, 2016. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0121037.

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