Nelson Mandela Movie

Define Apartheid

A policy of legal separation/segregation

What does Mandela say his dream is like at the beginning of the movie?

He wants everything the way it was with his loved ones (to go back with his family and live a happy life)

Instead of making trouble, what did Mandela want?

He didn’t want to make trouble, he wanted to make his family proud of him

After practicing boxing, what does the paper say on it that is handed to him?

“Boycott The Buses”

What is Winnie known for?

She is the first Black social worker (She carries the torch when Mandela is in prison)

What is protested in Sharpeville?

The law that non-whites had to carry passes of identity everywhere

When the reporter asks, what does Mandela say he personally wants?

He wants freedom, he wants his wife and kids to walk freely in their own land

What does Mandela say when he is asked to plead guilty or not guilty?

He pleads not guilty - he says that the government is guilty

How does Nelson Mandela’s prison cell look?

* Gross
* Empty
* Lacking necessities
* Unsanitary

What happens to the letters that Nelson Mandela receives in jai?

They cut whole sentences and words out (a lot, basically can’t read it at all) and he can only receive 1 letter every 6 months. Also, the ones he writes doesn’t get sent out.

How is Nelson Mandela and the other prisoners treated in jail?

They were treated very poorly. They went through psychological torture such as randomly making them strip, assaulting them, screaming at them, cursing at them, saying mean things to them, acting violently, waking them up with banging on their cells with sticks and yelling that them, etc.

What happened at the Orlando Stadium in 1985?

They were having a protest for liberation and Mandela’s daughter speaks to the crowd about Mandela and Winnie finally being able to touch each other for the first time in 21 years and how Mandela doesn’t want violence and how he got released.

Why are the White men concerned about each person having a vote in South Africa?

Bc they are concerned that the Blacks will seek revenge when they take over and they will harm the Whites. They think that by the Blacks’ violence, they would get power and then get revenge.

What does Nelson Mandela say about how he wants to be freed from prison?

* He just wants the President to open the gate and let him go bc he doesn’t want a big ceremony bc the Whites have already taken away half his life and returned him as an old man


* He also doesn’t want de Klerk at his side at this happy moment.
* He doesn’t want to be used as a pawn and make the Blacks feel that they have to do something in return

What does Nelson Mandel say is the “one way forward”?

He says that “peace” is the one way forward

How do Black South Africans turn out to vote in the election?

* They were all able to vote


* People waited hours and hours to be able to vote

Nelson Mandela says what about how people are born at the end of the movie?

* No one is born hating another bc of the color of their skin or race
* People can be taught to hate and to love