“A democratic and free society in which all persons will live together in harmony and with equal opportunities … is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.” These were the last chilling words of Nelson Mandela’s three-hour speech before hundreds at his criminal trial proceeding in the Pretoria Supreme Court of South Africa on April 20, 1964.
Category: Pretoria, South Africa
.com | The agonising wait as the assault starts
It is Tuesday in Pretoria West, and after some of the city’s buildings are torched and about 30 foreign-owned shops looted, a group calling itself the Mamelodi Concerned Residents’ Association announces it will lead a march against undocumented immigrants on Friday and hand over a memorandum to government. At 11:00 that morning, Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba speaks from Cape Town after the group’s anti-immigrant march is approved by the Tshwane metro police.