ABSTRACT
About the time American civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King’s brave and epoch-making ‘I Have a Dream’ address at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington in 1963, South Africa, along with most southern nations of that continent, was imprisoned by a systematic rule of oppression. Whether by political design or financial influence, draconian apartheid laws affected the lives of millions inside and outside the country; and while there were those whites in the land of apartheid who silently applauded King’s sentiments, the man who attempted to lead South Africa’s national revolution, seeking egalitarian freedom and universal suffrage, Nelson Mandela, had long been incarcerated on an island off Cape Town for political prisoners of the regime.
