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Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom Page #5
For medical reasons.
Walter snores like a donkey.
Kathy.
That is what I call a big mirror.
Ah.
Look at us.
Dangerous terrorists,
each one of us.
- I used to have a good right hand.
- Mmm.
Winnie! Winnie! Winnie!
Winnie! Winnie! Winnie...!
- Amandla!
- Awethu!
The army is in our townships.
Killing us everyday.
But we will fight
to the last drop of our blood.
We have no AK-47s.
We have no Casspirs,
but we have our hands.
We have stones!
We have boxes of matches!
We have petrol!
We know the informers.
We know the traitors.
And we know what to do with them.
town officials were
torn apart by the mobs
before the bodies were set alight.
I am prepared to release Mr. Mandela
if he would say
that he rejects violence
as a means to reach
and to achieve political ends.
Does he think we are idiots?
Anyone can see
it's just another trick.
Yes, Kathy, it is a trick,
but this is how it begins.
They called it a contact visit.
You can touch.
I haven't touched
my wife for 21 years.
You haven't changed.
- I have.
- No.
To me, you haven't changed.
Be careful this offer of release.
They are using you.
- I know.
- You mustn't betray
our people fighting
on the streets.
Speak so I can hear you.
Our people have never lost hope.
The more they oppress us,
the harder we fight.
They fear us, Nelson.
They fear me.
They think you are old and tired.
Make them fear you, too.
No politics.
We must talk politics.
The president has given me an offer,
and he expects a reply.
For the president.
Oh, Winnie.
Oh, my comrades,
Zindzi Mandela!
On Friday, my mother saw my father
in Pollsmoor Prison
and obtained his answer
to President Botha's offer
of conditional release.
My father says,
"I am not a violent man."
It was only when
"were no longer open to us
that we turned to armed struggle."
"Let President Botha
renounce violence.
"Let him dismantle apartheid."
"I cannot and will not"
give any undertaking at a time
when I and you,
"the people, are not free."
"Your freedom and mine
cannot be separated.
"I will return."
Freedom is in your hands
Freedom is in your hands...
Where are we going?
Well...
Welcome.
My name is Kobie Coetsee.
I'm the Minister of Justice.
This meeting is not taking place.
The rest of the world thinks
South Africa will be
ripped apart by race war.
Now, uh...
we have to do something
to restore confidence.
Let me introduce you.
General Willemse, who you know.
Fanie van der Merwe,
Prisons Department.
How do you do?
Dr. Niel Barnard,
National Intelligence Service.
- Pleased to meet you.
- Hello.
Mr. Mandela.
We 5 are charged
by the president
to find a way out
of our current difficulties.
Are you sure that
you can talk to me?
I am a member of
a banned organization.
Oh, we'll talk to you,
if you'll talk to us.
Well, gentlemen...
Shall we begin?
I don't trust them.
This is not the time to talk.
I don't think Madiba should be
talking to them on his own.
Let's just put it to the vote.
And you, Walter?
None of us are bigger
than the movement.
I take note, comrades...
but I will do
what I believe is right.
You have the most
powerful army in Africa.
There's no way
we can match you in battle,
but we have 30 million people.
I would call that a stalemate.
All right.
Here's the bottom line.
You end the violence, and we'll
give you a share in power.
A share?
Well, obviously, we can't accept
a crude one man, one vote system.
Yeah, if the blacks take over,
our country is finished.
We are finished.
- Why?
- "Why?"
"if the blacks take over..."
Can you imagine what the
blacks would do to us
if they got us in their power?
I am black.
You are different.
That is why we are talking to you.
These are the same people
that threw him in jail,
that persecuted his wife,
that murdered his friends,
and he's talking to them.
I don't believe
you don't want revenge.
You are right.
I do.
So?
How can we ever allow you
to have any real power?
Well, I admit I want revenge,
but I want something
more than that,
and that is to live
without fear and hatred.
Sweet dreams, Mr. Mandela.
I have no choice.
I have seen what fear
has done to your people.
You've always been afraid of us,
and it has made you an
unjust and brutal people.
Now consider our position.
We know that one
day we will be free,
and we will be the rulers
of our country,
but do we want to live
in the same hell as you do now?
That would be to
lock ourselves back
into prison and our children
and generations after that.
Gentlemen, look,
I can tell you for nothing,
when we come to power,
there will be no revenge.
It's blacks that
continue to be the victims
of this unprecedented
wave of unrest.
Nearly 300 people have
died since September.
Only one white has been killed.
personnel carriers.
These were live rounds
they were firing.
Lay him there, lay him there.
He is gone, Sisi.
Make them suffer
as we suffer.
Well, you've impressed them.
I think we're going
to make progress.
I hope so.
I believe you will soon
be reaching your 70th birthday.
My congratulations.
Do you plan a celebration?
Nothing of consequence.
- Is this my new prison?
- Yeah.
- Who else is to be held here?
- Just you.
Ah, Mr. Mandela,
welcome to your new home.
Am I being fattened for the kill?
No, you have a vital job
to do for your country.
We need to look after you.
By the way,
any members of your
family can visit any time.
Look at you kids.
She is hungry.
You are hungry.
Don't make a mess, huh?
Oh!
Hello.
I know that it has been
tough for you, but...
I hear so much these days.
These boys that you
have around you.
- What about them?
- Well, the violence, for one.
Some of it is necessary, but...
Hey!
Is that for me?
No, Khulu.
It is for the white men.
So you are doing that because
Yes, Khulu.
That is what they do to us,
and we must do better.
- Understand?
- Yes, Khulu.
Come.
Come on.
These are my grandsons,
and they would like to meet you.
Look at him.
- I'll do that.
- No, no, I want to do it.
Let Nelson do it, Swart.
Swart, you can stop.
You know that Winnie
can stay overnight
any time that you want.
Yes, but she won't.
This is still a prison.
She can't pretend
that I'm a free man.
Maybe.
But she's still your wife.
Well, I was married in 1958,
arrested in '62.
I didn't touch her again until '84.
Is she still my wife?
I've seen you with her and
the way you look at her photograph.
You love her.
This is very true, my friend.
But I love her as she was.
The first step
to regaining the confidence
of the markets is your release,
and then, of course,
the release of your colleagues.
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