FAMOUS PEOPLE
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Write 5 important facts about Nelson Mandela
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3- READING COMPREHENSION
Nelson Mandela walked out of prison a free man yesterday, and within hours told an ecstatic crowd of supporters in Cape Town that the armed struggle against apartheid would continue. In his first public speech since he was jailed 27 years ago, the African National Congress leader said that the guerrilla war launched in 1960 was a purely defensive action against the violence of apartheid. “We have no option but to continue. Now is the time to intensify the struggle on all fronts. To relax our efforts now would be a mistake which generations to come will not be able to forgive. The immediate ending of the state of emergency and the freeing of all political prisoners is necessary before negotiations with the government can start. To lift sanctions now would be to run the risk of stopping the process towards the complete end of apartheid.” Mandela said. The rally in Cape Town came at the end of a dramatic day which earlier saw Mandela walk to freedom through the gates of Victor Verster jail near Cape Town, hand in hand with his wife, Winnie, to meet a waiting crowd of supporters and the world's media. He greeted the crowd with a clenched fist salute, and then walked back to his car before leaving for Cape Town along a route lined with emotional well-wishers. Celebrations erupted throughout the country at the news of Mandela's release. But in Cape Town police fired rubber bullets to disperse parts of the crowd awaiting him after youths allegedly smashed windows and looted shops on the square. Doctors worked by torchlight only 100 yards from where Mandela spoke to treat scores of people with gunshot wounds. Elsewhere, residents said they had reports that police travelling in a car through a local township shot dead three people among a crowd celebrating the release. Police fired shotguns and teargas at a crowd of rejoicing blacks. Mandela's first words to the cheering crowd contained a message of peace. "I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all," he said. "I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people." Thanking South African anti-apartheid groups and the world community for campaigning for his release, he urged that the struggle against apartheid had to be increased. But almost immediately he expressed the hope that a climate could be created for negotiations so that the armed struggle would no longer be necessary. And he made a special point of pleading with whites to join the struggle against apartheid. Nelson Mandela's release was shown live on dozens of television channels around the world, but South African viewers had to wait for some minutes before his appearance was broadcast.
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