Voice Package: President joins anniversary of ANC’s armed wing + Mandela rally:
A MyJHB.co.za selected Liliesleaf Farm video for you:
(16 Dec 2001)
Liliesleaf farm, Rivonia, outside Johannesburg – December 15, 2001
0000 Various exteriors Liliesleaf farm
0009 Close-up bust of Nelson Mandela
0013 Various of people arriving
0022 South African President Thabo Mbeki arriving
0028 Various of Mbeki posing for photos with some of the Rivonia Trialists
0037 Various of people drinking champagne
0048 Cutaway of gathering
0051 Set up shot of Dennis Goldberg, former MK member
0055 SOUNDBITE: (English) Dennis Goldberg, former “MK” member
Soweto – December 16, 2001
0102 “MK” 40th anniversary banner
0105 Wide shot of stadium in Soweto
0110 . Wide shot of Mandela at podium
0115 SOUNDBITE: (English) Nelson Mandela, former South African president
0148 Various of crowd
0159 VISION ENDS
STORYLINE
It was to have been the last meeting of the armed wing of the African National Congress at their secret hide-out but the July 1963 gathering ended in a police raid and a trial that would change South African history.
Sixteen leaders of the African National Congress were charged with sabotage and attempting to overthrow the
government at the 1964 trial that followed the seven arrests at the Liliesleaf Farm.
In what became known as “the Rivonia Trial” the seven men were sentenced in June 1964 to life imprisonment – one of them was Nelson Mandela
This weekend, the former military commanders of the now defunct armed wing of the African National Congress gathered to celebrate 40 years since the founding of the movement.
VOICE OVER:
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The former military commanders of South Africa’s national struggle, gathered on Saturday, at Liliesleaf Farm in the Johannesburg suburbs to mark 40 years since the founding of their movement.
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Commonly known as “MK”, the group founded by Nelson Mandela plotted to overthrow the South African government by means of sabotage.
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President Thabo Mbeki paid a visit to the farm.
He told the guests that the legacy of the movement and the men who sacrificed their lives for it, had to be passed to the next generation.
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Mbeki’s father, Govan, was among those arrested on July 11, 1963.
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The accused used the hearing to put apartheid on trial.
The proceedings attracted international attention and raised the profile of the activists.
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Dennis Goldberg, a white activist who was arrested at the farm, travelled from London for the reunion.
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SOUNDBITE: (English) Dennis Goldberg, former “MK” member
“We were trying to live underground this idea that South Africa belongs to all who live in it.”
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On Sunday, Nelson Mandela marked the 40th Anniversary of “MK” by addressing several thousand people at a stadium in Soweto.
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He spoke of the importance of the armed struggle in overthrowing the apartheid regime.
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SOUNDBITE: (English) Nelson Mandela, former South African president
“Our armed struggle was a complement to our political struggle, never even a means, let alone end in itself. Our liberation war was about the achievement of peace and the saving of life from the systematic inhumane violence of our apartheid opponents.”
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After serving 27 years in prison, Mandela became the first post-apartheid democratically elected president of South Africa in 1994.
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