Launch of the Partnership against Aids ; For media enquiries, contact Faizal Dawjee For other information about the Partnership Against Aids launch, contact Karen Bulsara. see https://www.gov.za/about-government/government-programmes/declaration for the declaration
Johannesburg launch 46664 CD/DVD - It seems Mandela differed from the written script. We will include the speech as he delivered it once we secure the recording of the event.
This statement, issued after the positive response to a three day strike, announces a second phase in the fight against Verwoerd, a country-wide campaign of non-cooperation, and announces a National Convention. It also explains his decision, in accordance with the advice of the National Action Council, to carry on his political work underground rather than leaving the country or giving himself up for arrest to a government he did not recognise.
At the end of this trial, on 7 November 1962, Mandela was convicted and sentenced to three years' imprisonment on the charge of incitement and two years for leaving the country without valid travel documents. At the close of the trial the crowd ignored a