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Changing Times
1990 – Bowing to the pressure, President FW de Klerk lifts the ban on the ANC and Mr. Mandela is released from prison. The ANC and the white National Party soon begin talks on forming a multi-racial democracy for South Africa.
1993 – Mr. Mandela and Mr. de Klerk are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to transform South Africa against a backdrop of bloodshed.
1994 – In the first multi-racial democratic elections in South Africa’s history, Mr. Mandela is elected president. The ANC won 252 of the 400 seats in the national assembly.
1995 – South Africa wins the Rugby Union World Cup, and Mr Mandela is publicly presented with a team jersey by the team captain, seen as a highly symbolic gesture of unity between blacks and whites.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/Africa/1502427.stm
Second read
• Reread the timeline to answer these text-dependent questions.
• Write any additional questions you have about the text in your Reader/Writer Notebook.
7. Craft and Structure: What does the word dispossessed mean in the timeline entry for 1919? Does it have a positive, negative, or neutral connotation?
8. Craft and Structure: How does the timeline structure and organize information?
9. Key Ideas and Details: Based on the events under the heading “Changing Times,” what inference can you make about the transition to a non-apartheid government in South Africa?
Working from the Text
10. Using the information you learned from the timeline of Mandela’s life, work with a partner or small group to create an illustrated timeline that includes at least five key events from the timeline. For each event, include a date, a caption, and a visual image.
Word CoNNeCTIoNS
Content Connections
Sanctions are restrictions or penalties that one nation or group of nations imposes on another to enforce certain behaviors. Embargoes are official bans on the trade of goods and services from a particular nation or region. Like sanctions, embargoes are put in place by other nations in order to get a country or region to change its political or economic policies.
my Notes
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