{"id":94516,"date":"2015-07-18T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=94516"},"modified":"2015-07-18T12:00:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T10:00:14","slug":"11-steps-in-mandelas-quest-to-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/07\/18\/11-steps-in-mandelas-quest-to-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"11 Steps in Mandela\u2019s quest to Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>While in prison his eldest son was killed in a car accident, and to his disappointment, he was not allowed to go and bury him, despite this being a custom in his culture.<\/li>\n<li>All across the world, cries of \u201cFree Mandela\u201d were spread, to an extend that the South African government considered it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/UjfE6Hp56NY' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>In 1982, Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Raymond Mhlaba, Andrew Mlangeni and later Ahmed Kathrada were sent to Pollsmoor Prison.<\/li>\n<li>He rejected, through his daughter, Zindzi, South African President PW Botha\u2019s offer to release him if he renounces violence.<\/li>\n<li>Admitted to the Volks Hospital for prostate surgery. Discharged from hospital and returned to Pollsmoor Prison.<\/li>\n<li>He was admitted a number of times to hospital, where he was diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1988, before being moved to Victor Verster Prison in Paarl, where he was held for 14 months in a cottage.<\/li>\n<li>The ANC was unbanned on February 2, 1990 and he was released from prison on February 11, 1990. He walked out holding hands with his wife then Winnie Mandela.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Re510yGVQtM' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>The same year he was released from prison, he was elected ANC Deputy President.<\/li>\n<li>Despite opposition from the majority of South Africans, Mandela committed to hold talks with the government on forming a new South Africa. Codesa negotiations took place between 1990 and 1993.<\/li>\n<li>Chris Hani\u2019s death on April 10, 1993 was a catalyst in making sure the Codesa negotiations were followed through, after a visibly irate Mandela lashed out at former President FW de Klerk.<\/li>\n<li>After the Codesa negotiations, Mandela and De Klerk were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on December 10, 1993.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='d1a43c505e1b7697fd05899c747d53e5'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While in prison Nelson Mandela continued to study and later engaged in talks with the South African government who sought to end apartheid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":94517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,7908,2],"tags":[1648,3213,7909,1260,2362],"class_list":["post-94516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-mandela-day-news","category-news-headlines","tag-gauteng","tag-johannesburg","tag-mandela-day-2015","tag-nelson-mandela","tag-south-africa"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Gauteng","Johannesburg","mandela day 2015","nelson mandela","South Africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}