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    Nelson Mandela: A Long Walk to Freedom

    Summary

    Long Walk to Freedom is Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, published in 1994. It details his life and the
    struggle for freedom of the South African people. This excerpt revolves around Mandela’s desire for
    freedom from racism, as democracy was established in his country. The South Africans faced racism
    and hate during the apartheid period, which upheld segregationist policies. The all-white government
    sanctioned the political and economic discrimination against the non-white population of South
    Africa. It forced black South Africans into poverty, loss, and lack of protection of their basic dignity.

    Theme

    The lesson pays homage to the heroes and patriots who relentlessly struggled against the racist
    regime in South Africa. It gives a message of peace and unity. It presents the idea of equality and no
    exploitation of man by man. It opens the way for a new order with no racialism and segregation.

    Read the extract and answer the questions that follow.

    We, who were outlaws not so long ago…………………………………………………………………...


    ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
    …… We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty,
    deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

    (a) What does ‘we’ refer in the first line of the passage?

    (b) What did the people of South Africa achieve at last?

    (c) The word ‘bondage’ means …… in the passage.

    (d) Give a synonym of ’emancipation’.

    Answer:

    (a) ‘We’ refers to the people of South Africa in the first line of the passage.

    (b) The people of South Africa achieved their political emancipation at last.

    (c) The word bondage means slavery in the passage.

    (d) ‘Freedom/liberation’ is a synonym of emancipation.

    Read the extract and answer the questions that follow.

    In life, every man has twin obligations- obligations to his family………………………………………………………..


    …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…………………………………
    …In South Africa, a man of colour who attempted to live as a human being was punished and isolated.

    (a) What are the obligations that every man has in life?

    (b) Why was it impossible for a coloured man to discharge his obligations?

    (c) Find the word in the passage which has same meaning as ‘duty’.
    (d) A word synonymous with intentions’ is ……… in the passage.

    Answer:

    (a) Every man has two obligations one is to his family and second to his community and country.

    (b) In South Africa if a coloured man tried to fulfil his obligations, he was punished and isolated.

    (c) The word is.‘obligation’.

    (d) Inclinations.

    Question 1. After achieving political emancipation what does Mandela want to do in South
    Africa?

    Answer: South Africa and the blacks have achieved their political emancipation. Mandela pledges to
    liberate his people from the bondage of poverty, want, suffering, gender and other discriminations.
    South Africa will never ever experience the oppression of one by another. He wishes the reign of
    freedom will never die in South Africa.

    Question 2. What freedom meant to Mandela in childhood?

    Answer: During childhood the meaning of freedom for Mandela was quite limited he considered it to
    be free to run in the fields, to swim in the clear stream, free to roast mealies and ride the board backs
    of slow moving bulls.

    Question 3. What pained Nelson Mandela on becoming the President of South Africa?

    Answer: Nelson Mandela was sad for not being able to thank those African patriots who had fought for
    independence and sacrificed their lives for it. This pained him that they were not able to see what
    their sacrifices had brought.

    Question 4. When did Mandela’s hunger for self-turn into a hunger for freedom for all his
    people?

    Answer: Mandela gradually realized that freedom was curtailed for those people who looked like he
    did, but not for the whites. Consequently, he joined the African National Congress, and that was when
    his “hunger for freedom” became a “greater hunger.”

    Question 5. What did Mandela think for oppressor and oppressed?

    Answer:

    Mandela always thought that both oppressor and oppressed are deprived of their humanity.
    Oppressor is a prisoner of hatred while oppressed has no confidence in humanity so both of them
    need to be liberated.

    Question 6. What ideals does Mandela set out for the future of South Africa in his speech?

    Answer: The ideal Mandela set out for the future of South Africa in his speech was to liberate the
    people of South Africa from continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other
    discriminations.
    Question 7. Describe the effect of the policy of apartheid on the people of South Africa.

    Answer: The policy of apartheid could not be considered fortunate for the people of South Africa. It
    created distance and a deep wound in the country and the people. Many great men like Oliver Tambo,
    Walttr Sisulu, Yusuf Dadoo, Bram Fischer, etc were produced due to the brutality and oppression.
    They were men of great character

    Question 8. How is courage related to the brave man according to the author of the lesson?

    Answer: The author believes that courage is not the absence of fear, but it is the triumph over it. The
    brave man is not the one who does not feel fear of any kind but he is the one who has the courage to
    conquer it.

    Long Answer Questions

    Question 1. What does Nelson Mandela refer to as “an extraordinary human disaster”?

    Answer: Nelson Mandela refers to the apartheid policy of the white race against the black people as
    “an extraordinary human disaster”. White people snatched freedom from the coloured people of South
    Africa to whom the country belonged. The black people were subjected to oppression for long. They
    were not even allowed to discharge their obligations to their own families, community and their
    country. White people had no compassion for them and oppressed their own people and put them in
    prison. If they had some freedom, it was curtailed. The black people lived the life of a slave.

    Question 2. What does Mandela mean to say that the oppressor and the oppressed alike are
    robbed of their humanity?

    Answer: Mandela is right in saying that the oppressor and the oppressed alike are robbed of their
    humanity. Both of them are actually the victim of hatred. Everyone is obliged to discharge their duties
    whether personal or social but without freedom a man cannot do so. The person who snatches this
    freedom of a man is really an oppressor and a prisoner of hatred. He has lack of humanity. But this is
    the same with a person who is oppressed by other.

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