Speeches and Public Statements

Address to the Swedish Parliament Stockholm, 13 March 1990
Statement of the Deputy President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela, to the party parliament group on South Africa London, 3 July 1990
Statement of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, at the welcome ceremony by the President of the Republic Paris, France, 6 June 1990
Interview with British press Johannesburg, March 1990
Statement of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, to the President and members of the French National Assembly Bourbon Palace, Paris, 7 June 1990
Interview with Mandela TIME, February 26, 1990.
Extracts from a press conference, 11 February 1990
Statement of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, at the religious service at the Cathedral of UPPSALA Uppsala, Sweden, 13 March 1990
Statement of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, at the Prime Minister’s dinner Hotel de Matigon, Paris, 7 June 1990
Nelson Mandela’s Wembley speech London, Monday 16 April 1990
Mandela message to the USA big business 19 June 1990
Speech by the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, at the Banquet hosted by the President of the Republic of India New Delhi, 15 October 1990
Address to the International Labour Conference Geneva, 8 June 1990
Christmas message of the Deputy President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela December 1990
Speech of Comrade Nelson Mandela to Soccer City Rally Soweto, 16th December 1990
Nelson Mandela’s address to rally in Cape Town on his release from prison 11 February 1990
Tribute at the Funeral Service of Walter Sisulu 17 May 2003
Address during the 90th Birthday Celebration of Mr Walter Sisulu 18 May 2002 Mr President, Ladies and Gentleman, Comrades and Friends
Address during a joint sitting of Parliament to mark 10 years of Democracy In South Africa Monday 10 May 2004, Cape Town
Statement by Nelson Mandela on building a global partership for children Johannesburg - 6 May 2000 Ladies and Gentlemen
Address to the United Nations Security Council on the Arusha Peace Process 29 September 2000 Mr President Honourable Members of the Security Council
NELSON MANDELA FOUNDATION RESPONDS TO REPORT IN THE DAILY TELEGRAPH 3 March 2001 The followng letter has been sent to the editor of the Daily Telegraph in London in response to an article published in that newspaper today 3 March 2001.
Address on the occasion of the Launch of the Final Report of the World Commission on Dams 16 November 2000, in Cabot Hall, London Friends Honoured Guests Ladies and Gentlemen
’I am not prepared to sell the birthright of the people to be free’, 1985
Message to the second National Consultative Conference of the ANC Kabwe, Zambia, June 1985
’Unite! Mobilise! Fight On! 1976 ANC document
Address by Nelson Mandela on behalf of the ANC delegation to the Conference of the Pan-African Freedom Movement of East and Central Africa Addis Ababa, January 1962
’The struggle is my life’ Press Statement Issued on 26 June 19611
Nelson Mandela’s Testimony at the Treason Trial 1956-1960
”I am Prepared to Die” Nelson Mandela’s statement from the dock at the opening of the defence case in the Rivonia Trial Pretoria Supreme Court, 20 April 1964
’General Strike’ Statement by Nelson Mandela on behalf of the National Action Council following the stay-at-home in May 19611
’Black man in a white court’ Nelson Mandela’s First Court Statement - 1962
Presidential Address: Annual Conference of the African National Congress Youth League December 1951
”No Easy Walk to Freedom” Presidential Address by Nelson R. Mandela to the ANC (Transvaal) Congress 21 September 1953
Address to the Annual Conference of the Natal, 23 November 1951
The Road to Freedom is Via the Cross, 1952
Albert Luthuli’s Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize, Oslo, December 10, 1961
The African National Congress in recent years especially the last seven years, 1952
Presidential Address to the 42nd Annual Conference of the African National Congress, Queenstown, 18-20 December 1953
The challenge of our time, September 5, 1954