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Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom Page #6
We've briefed the president.
He's a pragmatist;
he heard us.
The government agrees to lift the ban
on the ANC and repeal the race laws.
You undertake to renounce violence.
No.
- But you said...
- I said nothing.
I listened.
But you will withdraw your
demand for majority rule?
No.
Then what are you giving us
in exchange for what we give you?
Nothing.
These meetings have been
a complete waste of all our time.
Well, I wouldn't say
that I've wasted my time.
The president has made up his mind.
It can't be stopped now.
The president is a member
of the Gereformeerde Kerk,
very Calvinist.
He believes God calls him to do
a special task in a special time.
After the inauguration service...
he wept... and said
that God was calling him
to save the people of South Africa.
President de Klerk.
- It's this way.
- Hang on, shoelace.
- Thank you.
- Yeah.
Well, this is it.
- Mr. Mandela.
- Mr. President.
May I congratulate you
on your election?
Thank you.
You have been called
to a very special task
in a very special time.
So I believe.
- Just here?
- Yeah.
Mr. Mandela, I have taken
Unconditionally.
A car will be ready at 9:00 tomorrow
morning to take you to the airport.
A plane will be waiting to fly
you directly to Johannesburg
where the official release
ceremony will take place.
Mr. De Klerk,
your people have taken
away half of my life
and returned me an old man
to a home that has
been long abandoned
and a family that have
grown up without me.
I don't want you at my side
at that moment.
I don't want to be told that you
have given me my freedom.
Just open the gate
and let me go.
Any minute now.
OK, Tata?
Hello, hello.
How are you, Auntie?
Yeah, I'm good.
I wouldn't do it without you.
You want me to hold your hand?
In case I stumble?
Somebody want me?
Don't be fooled by all
that cheering, Madiba.
- There's anger out there.
- I know that.
Winnie, Winnie.
It's just been so long.
It's better that way.
I am so tired.
I just want to sleep.
The government accepts
that change must come,
but I say to you again,
we must find a way to share power.
We must find a way to protect
the rights of the minorities.
Suddenly, the illusion of
white power is beginning to crumble.
For the first time since apartheid
began, the government here is beginning
to talk about the need for reform,
and among ordinary white people,
feelings now range
from bewilderment to anger to fear.
De Klerk will not...
You know this.
That is not going to happen.
We are not sharing power
with these whites.
As long as there are
- that is not going to happen.
- I mean, just how?
How do we accept power
sharing with the whites?
What do we do? Do we fight?
Do we start a war?
We have a war!
What, you think this is not a war?
We have a war,
what we need now is victory.
Comrades, our people can never
accept sharing power with the whites.
People will not accept this.
What de Klerk wants is ministers
in the new government.
- Why should de Klerk get what he wants?
- De Klerk is right.
We must let them share the power.
A little power for a little while
until the fear has passed.
Madiba, I don't think our
people will accept that.
Then we must make them accept.
We are their leaders.
That is our job.
These old men
just want to talk.
The days of talking are over!
Go and get her.
I hear the voice of the people.
And that voice says,
"We will fight."
Mama,
Madiba wants to see you inside.
All right.
What?
in front of our people?
Winnie, when you speak in public,
you must represent
the policies of the ANC.
- And what does that mean?
- We are negotiating.
- We are not fighting a war.
- But the people have chosen to fight.
Do you want me to
betray our people?
- Do I betray our people?
- You have been away a long time.
What does that mean,
I've been away?
Does that mean now
you can terrorize people?
The burning, the necklacing,
that has to stop, Winnie.
You realize there's a war out there.
The people are angry.
We are all angry.
I am angry!
You are angry,
but you must show loyalty!
Loyalty, Winnie Mandela.
Loyalty.
I have decided that it would be better
if I live in my own home.
Better for the party.
Better for us.
- "Better for the party"?
- You have your own home in Diepkloof.
You have your own company there.
Am I to blame because
I don't want to be alone?
You know, so much
of my life,
I have been alone.
We have both been alone
too much, Winnie.
Why, Walter?
Tell me why, hmm?
Why, why do you show me this?
- Do you think I don't know?
- This has gone too far.
- If she was discrete about this...
- I have accepted the situation!
What business is
it of anyone else?
She humiliates you in public, Madiba.
And that hurts all of us.
Come now.
What they have done to my
wife is their only victory over me.
In view of the tensions
that have arisen
between my wife and myself
in the recent months,
we have mutually agreed
that a separation
would be best for each of us.
I shall personally never regret
the life that we tried
to share together.
I part from my wife
with no recriminations.
I embrace her with all the love
and affection.
I have nursed for her
inside and outside of prison
from the moment I first met her.
Ladies and gentlemen,
I hope that you can appreciate
the pain that I am going through.
- Thank you.
- Mr. Mandela...
Police opened fire
on gun-carrying demonstrators...
Mr. Mandela?
President de Klerk here.
The situation on the streets
is out of control.
Is this the peaceful
South Africa you say you want?
Black-on-black violence has
reached proportions of near civil war.
power struggle developed
white rule with black.
200 Zulus
rampaged through Boipatong,
cutting down anyone they saw.
Madiba, do something.
Do something.
Do something, do something.
President de Klerk blames
the Boipatong massacre...
attacks by the Inkatha
Freedom Party supporters
on an ANC rally near Johannesburg
has left 13 people dead.
It could set back
the peace process in South Africa
by months, if not years.
violence has now put
South Africa's constitution...
de Klerk has attacked
what he calls "the ultimatum politics"
of the ANC.
Increasing financial
and diplomatic isolation...
Please sit down.
today's move on Capitol
Hill, the indications...
Mr. Mandela, you're going to be
talking into that camera.
- Yes, this one.
- A little bit more light please.
Yeah, lovely, you see?
wondering whether
it can survive the rage
that divides that nation,
black and white.
but it does not derail
talks toward ending white rule.
South African president,
FW de Klerk...
Panic, chaos, confusion...
...white minority's worst nightmare.
...crisis for this country...
5 seconds, 4,
3, 2...
Someone gave me this note...
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