The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela

An unforgettable portrait of one of the most inspiring historical figures of the twentieth century, published on the centenary of his birth.

Im Kampf gegen die Rassentrennung in Afrika nahm Nelson Mandela alles in Kauf. Auch 27 Jahre in Haft. In der Gefangenschaft konnte er nur noch durch Briefe Kontakt zur Außenwelt halten. Diese Briefe, die nun erstmals veröffentlicht werden, zeigen Mandela so nah und menschlich wie niemals zuvor. Aus ihnen spricht ein Mann, der seine Frau und seine Kinder zärtlich liebt, der das Leben in Freiheit bitter entbehrt und den doch keine Macht der Welt zu beugen vermag. In einer Zeit, in der die Welt ihren moralischen Kompass verloren zu haben scheint, erinnern uns Nelson Mandelas atemberaubende Briefe daran, dass Freiheit und Gerechtigkeit nicht verhandelbar sind.
Nelson Mandelas Haftzeit begann am 5. August 1962 und endete am 11. Februar 1990. Nach seiner Entlassung und dem Ende der Apartheid wurde er zum ersten schwarzen Präsidenten seines Landes gewählt und trug entscheidend durch seine Politik der Versöhnung dazu bei, Südafrika vor einem blutigen Bürgerkrieg zu bewahren. In den langen Jahren seiner Haft hat Mandela zahlreiche Briefe geschrieben: an seine Frau und seine Kinder, seine Anwälte, den Gefängnisdirektor und den Premierminister. So unmittelbar wie nirgendwo sonst sprechen in diesen Briefen seine Gedanken und seine Gefühle zu uns - doch zugleich schildern sie auch höchst anschaulich das Leben und den Alltag im Gefängnis. Aus Anlass des 100. Geburtstages von Nelson Mandela am 18. Juli 2018 erscheint nun erstmals eine Auswahl von 250 Briefen aus dem Gefängnis, herausgegeben von der Nelson-Mandela- Foundation, von denen mehr als 90% bislang unveröffentlicht sind. Sie sind ein ergreifendes Zeugnis der Humanität und der menschlichen Größe, das kein Leser ohne Bewegung zu lesen vermag.


Autorentext
Nelson Mandela (19182013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist, who served as the first democratically-elected President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. Mandela established the Nelson Mandela Foundation as his post-presidential office in 1999. It is a not-for-profit organization which has, since 2004, been transformed into an archive and trusted voice on his life and times. It carries out its mandate to promote Mandela's vision and work by convening dialogues and creating platforms for engagement around critical issues to promote social justice.Sahm Venter is a former Associated Press reporter (who covered and was witness to Mandela's release from prison in 1990) and a longtime researcher. She has co-edited several previous books, including Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom with Sello Hatang and Doug Abrams); 491 Days: Prisoner Number 1323/69 by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, with Swati Dlamini; and Something to Write Home About: Reflections from the Heart of History, with Claude Colart; and co-wrote Conversations with a Gentle Soul with the late anti-apartheid struggle hero, Ahmed Kathrada.Zamaswazi Dlamini-Mandela was born in 1979 in Welkom, South Africa, close to the town of Brandfort to which her grandmother, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was banished by the apartheid regime. She works as a business developer and is a public speaker and a self-described serial entrepreneur. In 2017 she launched her luxury fashion range Swati by Roi Kaskara. She is the granddaughter of Nelson Mandela and Nomzamo Nobandla Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.

Klappentext
Arrested in 1962 as South Africa's apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, forty-four-year-old lawyer and African National Congress activist Nelson Mandela had no idea that he would spend the next twenty-seven years in jail. During his 10,052 days of incarceration, Mandela wrote hundreds of letters to unyielding prison authorities, fellow activists, government officials, and most memorably, to his wife Winnie and his five children. Now, 255 of these letters, the majority of which were previously unseen, provide the most intimate portrait of Mandela since Long Walk to Freedom. Painstakingly researched, authenticated and catalogued by the Nelson Mandela Foundation, the letters have been drawn from the Foundation's archive as well as from public and private collections held by the Mandela family and South African government archives. Mandela's letters are organised chronologically and divided by the four prisons in which he was incarcerated. Each section opens with a short introduction to provide a historical overview of each of these periods and the collection features a foreword by Zamaswazi Dlamini-Mandela. Whether writing about the death of his son Thembi after a request to attend the funeral was ignored, providing unwavering support to his also-imprisoned wife or outlining a human-rights philosophy that resonates today, The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela reveals the heroism of a man who refused to compromise his moral values in the face of extraordinary human punishment. Ultimately, they confirm Mandela's position among the most inspiring historical figures of the twentieth century.

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