Nelson Mandela Stage 4

Before Reading ChApTer 4 whIlE READING

1 Why did Mandela have to leave Wolfie’s flat?
activities answers

Because people had seen Mandela’s Xhosa milk

before reading activities (page 76) outside the flat.
For these activities, encourage students to exchange 2 What was Mandela’s name when he worked for MK?
ideas, and to speculate and to guess. Do not tell David Motsamayi.
them the answers that are factual; they will find out 3 Who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1961?
the answers as they read. Chief Luthuli, leader of the ANC.
ACTIVITY 1 BEFORE READING 4 Where did MK members plan their work?
1 F, 2 T, 3 F, 4 T Lilliesleaf Farm.
5 How did Mandela and his wife dress at the trial in
ACTIVITY 2 BEFORE READING
Pretoria?
All words except e-mail, oil, horse racing, and desert In colourful Xhosa clothes.
are in the book. 6 How long was Mandela on Robben Island before he
ACTIVITY 3 BEFORE READING was taken back to Pretoria?
Sentences 1, 3, 4, and 6 are correct. Only a few weeks.
ChApTer 5 whIlE READING
While Reading 1 In the 1960s the police began using torture while
questioning prisoners.
ChApTers 1 And 2 whIlE READING 2 Bram Fischer was a lawyer at the Rivonia trial.
1 Mandela’s first teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave him 3 Mandela was charged with sabotage.
the name ‘Nelson’. 4 The court could give the death sentence for
2 After Mandela’s father died he lived with his uncle, sabotage.
Chief Jongintaba. 5 The police had found hundreds of papers but no
3 Mandela met Oliver Tambo when they were weapons at Lilliesleaf Farm.
students at Fort Hare. 6 Bruno Mtolo spoke against the accused at the
4 Mandela ran away to Johannesburg with his cousin Rivonia trial.
Justice. 7 In London, Joe Slovo led a march to protest against
5 Walter Sisulu helped Mandela to find a job in the trial.
Johannesburg.
ChApTer 6 whIlE READING
6 Mandela fell in love with a student nurse called
1+e From the first day, Mandela protested about
Evelyn Mase.
conditions on Robben Island.
7 Dr Daniel Malan wanted black and white people to
2+a In winter it was so cold that the prisoners slept
live separately.
in their clothes.
ChApTer 3 whIlE READING 3+d The electric light in each cell was never turned
1 The government forced black people out of their off.
homes in Sophiatown. 4+g The prisoners were able to study, but their
2 For two years, Mandela was forbidden to leave families had to pay for the books.
Johannesburg. 5+c Prisoners could have one visitor every six
3 The Freedom Charter said that everyone should be months.
able to vote for the government. 6+b Mandela talked to Winnie through a window
4 Winnie was Mandela’s second wife. while the guards stood behind them and
5 The police killed sixty-nine people at a protest in listened.
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Sharpeville. 7+f At first, the prisoners sang Xhosa freedom

6 At the end of the treason trial, Mandela was found songs, but the guards soon stopped them.
not guilty.
ChApTer 7 whIlE READING
7 Prime Minister Verwoerd said that black Africans
1 Because she had not seen him since she was three
should be called Bantus.
years old.
Before reAdIng ChApTer 4 2 The story of his life.
1 N, 2 Y, 3 N, 4 Y 3 Afrikaans.
4 In Pretoria prison.
5 Oliver Tambo.

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Before reAdIng ChApTer 8 10 RepoRteR:‘But you were both allowed to study,
1 Y, 2 N, 3 Y, 4 Y weren’t you?’
ChApTer 8 whIlE READING
7 kathRada: ‘At first, yes – but later the guards
1 a, 2 b, 3 c, 4 c, 5 a, 6 b discovered that Nelson was secretly writing his life
story, with my help.’
ChApTer 9 whIlE READING 3 RepoRteR: ‘And how were you punished?’

activities answers
1 F There were black and white South Africans, 13 kathRada: ‘We were forbidden to study for four
Indians, and Coloured people in the government. years. It was a difficult time. But now we must think
2 F Most of the time, Mandela liked to wear bright, about the future!’
colourful shirts.
ACTIVITY 3 AFTER READING
3 T
4 F The South African rugby team won the World Cup Open answers. Here are some possible sentences:
in 1995. In the 1970s Robben Island was a prison, but now
5 T tourists can visit it.
6 F When Mandela left the government, he moved to In the 1970s many people did not visit South Africa
Qunu in the Transkei. because they did not agree with its government, but
now it is a very popular place with tourists.
Before reAdIng ChApTer 10 In the 1970s black South Africans had to carry passes,
1 N, 2 N, 3 N, 4 Y but now they don’t.
In the 1970s Aids was not a problem in South Africa,
After Reading but now it is a big problems for millions of people
there.
ACTIVITY 1 AFTER READING In the 1970s thousands of people were made to move
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P O R R I D G E to the Bantustans, but now these places have become
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Q U A R R Y part of South Africa again.
In the 1970s black South Africans were not able to
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A P A R T H E I D
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S T R U G G L E
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vote, but now they can.
A F R I K A A N S
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In the 1970s the police could use torture, but now they
F R E E D O M
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E L E C T I O N
cannot.
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P E N G U I N S In the 1970s black and white South Africans were
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S A B O T A G E not equal. Now a lot of black South Africans are
still poor, but life is slowly getting better for a lot of
The hidden word is PRESIDENT. people.
Presidents mentioned in the book are P. W. Botha, F. ACTIVITY 4 AFTER READING
W. de Klerk, Nelson Mandela, and Thabo Mbeki. 1 Mandela’s cousin Justice. His father, Chief
ACTIVITY 2 AFTER READING Jongintaba, wants to arrange marriages for the
11 RepoRteR: ‘So, Ahmed Kathrada, now you are a free two young men. Justice is thinking about the secret
man!’ journey to Johannesburg that he and Nelson have
4 kathRada: ‘That’s true, but Nelson hasn’t been planned.
released yet.’ 2 Evelyn Mase, Mandela’s first wife. She has decided
12 RepoRteR: ‘And when do you think that will that their marriage is over, and is about to leave their
happen?’ home in Orlando West.
2 kathRada: ‘Very soon, I hope. I saw him at Victor 3 Nelson Mandela. He is working underground for the
Verster recently, and he’s in good spirits. We’re old ANC and MK, disguised as a driver and using the
friends.’ name David Motsamayi. The police have identified
6 RepoRteR: ‘You were both on Robben Island, weren’t him and are about to arrest him.
you?’ 4 Mandela’s daughter Zindzi. She is about to read a
9 kathRada: ‘That’s right. We were taken there after statement prepared by her father to a large crowd
in Soweto stadium. Mandela, who is in Pollsmoor
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the Rivonia trial.’

14 RepoRteR: ‘What were conditions like there?’ prison, has been offered his freedom if he stops
5 kathRada: ‘They were terrible for me. But they were using violence.
even worse for Nelson.’ ACTIVITY 5 AFTER READING
8 RepoRteR: ‘In what way?’
Open answers. Encourage students to discuss their
1 kathRada: ‘Well, as an Indian I was given warmer
ideas and opinions.
clothes and better food, for example, than the
Africans like Nelson.’ ACTIVITY 6 AFTER READING
Open answers.

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