日韩精品久久一区二区三区_亚洲色图p_亚洲综合在线最大成人_国产中出在线观看_日韩免费_亚洲综合在线一区

 
  | Home | News| Living in China| SMS | About us | Contact us|
   
 Language Tips > Newsmakers
Updated: 2004-12-07 13:54

New Mandela letters come to light

南非《星期日時(shí)報(bào)》12月5日根據(jù)曼德拉筆記本中所記載的信件草稿內(nèi)容,首次披露了這位南非前總統(tǒng)被關(guān)押在羅本島期間的一些動(dòng)人細(xì)節(jié)。

New Mandela letters come to light

"There are times when my heart almost stops beating" (Agencies)

Private letters written by former South African President Nelson Mandela during his incarceration on Robben Island have just come to light .

In his letters, he writes of how he misses his family and friends.

A retired policeman took the two notebooks and hid them for 33 years, only returning them two months ago

The books contains 70 letters, written to friends and family between 1969 and 1971.

"There are times when my heart almost stops beating, slowed down by heavy loads of longing. I would love to bathe once more in the waters of Umbashe, as I did at the beginning of 1935," he wrote in one of the letters in April 1971.

He also writes of his longing for his childhood haunts in the former Transkei, places such as Qunu, Umqekezo and his place of birth, Mvezo.

The notebooks contained a picture of a topless dancing woman, who lived on the Andaman Islands near India.

Torn from a National Geographic, Mr Mandela had kept the picture because he saw it as a celebration of life.

Letters also tell of his personal pain when both his mother and his eldest son Tembi died in the space of 12 months between 1968 and 1969 and how he was not allowed to attend their funerals.

The letters were all written in English to prevent delays in having them cleared by prison authorities who checked all incoming and outgoing letters from Robben Island prisoners.

The policeman, Donald Card, had censored the mail of prisoners on Robben Island and checked it for coded messages.

Mr Card had given evidence against Mr Mandela and his co-accused at the Rivionia trial in 1963.

Mr Card said he did not have the heart to sell the books, which are now valued at about 20m rand (£1.8m; $3.5m).

"I obviously could have sold them but they are not mine. I was a cop and honesty was the prime thing.

"I could not go and become a crook and sell something that was not mine," he said.

University of Fort Hare historian Cornelius Thomas has verified the letters and says they are an important part of the country's history. Mr Mandela recognised his own handwriting but had forgotten these letters existed.

Mr Mandela, a conscientious record keeper, always wrote drafts of letters in his note book, Verne Harris of the Nelson Mandela foundation said.

In his book, "A long walk to freedom", Mandela devoted only four pages in his book to the period covered by the letters, which are now being transcribed for a book to be published later this year.

(Agencies)

 

Vocabulary:

incarceration: the state of being imprisoned(禁閉,監(jiān)禁)

come to light: be revealed or disclosed(被發(fā)現(xiàn),暴露)

topless: having the breasts uncovered or featuring such nudity(穿袒胸衣的)

rand : (蘭特,南非的貨幣單位)

 
Go to Other Sections
Story Tools
Related Stories
· First woman deputy in Zimbabwe
· Bush picks Kerik for homeland security job
· Bush's security chief resigns
more
 
Copyright by chinadaily.com.cn. All rights reserved

版權(quán)聲明:未經(jīng)中國(guó)日?qǐng)?bào)網(wǎng)站許可,任何人不得復(fù)制本欄目?jī)?nèi)容。如需轉(zhuǎn)載請(qǐng)與本網(wǎng)站聯(lián)系。
None of this material may be used for any commercial or public use. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited.
 

 

主站蜘蛛池模板: 国产成人精品日本亚洲11 | 一区二区免费播放 | 亚洲第一网站 | 一区二区日韩 | 亚洲色婷婷久久精品AV蜜桃久久 | 天天做天天爱天天爽天天综合 | 美国一级大黄 | 青草国产超碰人人添人人碱 | 欧美一区2区三区4区公司二百 | 久久一日本道色综合久久 | 久久久精品午夜免费不卡 | 在线观看日韩中文字幕 | 国语一级毛片 | 中文乱码一二三四有限公司 | 国产高清成人 | 夜夜摸夜夜爽 | 欧美日韩在线免费 | 亚洲精品自产拍在线观看app | 人人草人人干 | 欧美系列在线播放 | 久久久人 | 伊人久久国产精品 | 欧美国产精品一区二区 | 国产精品一区二区三区四区 | 久久久久综合 | 国产精品精品 | www.奇米影视.com | 久久日本精品一区二区三区 | 亚洲一区和二区 | 精品久久一区二区 | 久久亚洲精品国产精品婷婷 | 99精品视频免费在线观看 | 毛片a片 | 精品黄网 | 日本中文在线观看 | 国产精品第1页 | 69午夜 | wwwwww日本| 日韩欧美在线一区 | 毛片毛片毛片毛片毛片 | 精品国产不卡一区二区三区 |