Archive: Nelson Mandela Selected articles, documents and speeches 1956-1964
Please note: We will be adding material to this archive weekly.
Mandela and Sisulu at Robben Island.(© Mayibuye Centre)
- 1956-1960:
- Nelson Mandela's Testimony at the Treason Trial.
- April 1961:
- 'The Struggle for a National Convention'. Article written by Nelson Mandela for Fighting Talk.
- May 1961:
- 'General Strike' - Statement by Nelson Mandela on behalf of the National Action Council following the stay-at-home in May 1961.
- 26 June 1961:
- 'The struggle is my life' - Press Statement issued.
- 1962:
- 'Black man in a white court' - Nelson Mandela's First Court Statement.
- 1962:
- Address by Nelson Mandela on behalf of the ANC delegation to the Conference of the Pan-African Freedom Movement of East and Central Africa.
- July 1963:
- 'Operation Mayibuye'. A Document found by the police at Rivonia, 11 July 1963. As a result of evidence found by police at Rivonia, Mandela was charged at the Rivonia Trial.
- 1964:
- 'I am Prepared to Die' - Nelson Mandela's statement from the dock at the opening of the defence case in the Rivonia Trial.
- 1964:
- An Autobiographical Note by Nelson Mandela written in 1964.
- 1965:
- 'Nelson Mandela'. This item by Oliver Tambo was published as the introduction to the book 'No Easy Walk to Freedom' by Ruth First.
