South Africa today desk calendar (Image #17)

NMF1981-03-29/1981-04-04

The Nelson Mandela Foundation
Johannesburg, South Africa

The item consists of 1 printed desk calendar with handwritten notes covering the year of 1981. The calendar was used as a diary by Nelson Mandela while in prison and contains entries concerning matters such as visits, dreams, films, books, personal health and politics.

1 page of a printed desk calendar with handwritten notes covering the year of 1981. The calendar was used as a diary by Nelson Mandela while in prison and contains entries concerning matters such as visits, dreams, films, books, personal health and politics.

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Title: South Africa today desk calendar (Image #17)
Creator: NMF, Mandela, Nelson
Date: 1981-01-01/1981-12-31, 1981-03-29/1981-04-04
Date Created: 1981
Original Language: English, Xhosa
Transcript:
1981 March 31 Letter from Riordan given to me. April 1-2 Mandela documentary: BBC producer Frank Cox, who made the TV drama documentary on editor Donald Woods escape from SA, is planning a T.V. drama documentary on N.M. for filming in June. Casting for white & black South African actors starts in June. The programme will run for 50 minutes & will be part of a series of 3 on the subject of human rights. The programme will be filmed on a mock-up Robben-Island somewhere in Britain. 3 Thambi Bishop Tutu speaks to in Committee Room of House of Commons at culmination of Release M. campaign. Present Michael Foot, David Steel. Petition endorsed by 94 MPs, 25 peers, 50[?] leading church-man including 19 bishops, & 98 professors, 500 organisations representing estimated 12,000 000
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Type: Diary/Calendar
Subjects: Prison, Robben Island; Riordan, Rory; Cox, Frank; Escape (1980); Woods, Donald; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); Prisoners of Conscience: Nelson Mandela (1981); Tutu, Desmond, Archbishop; Foot, Michael; Steel, David
Reference code: ZA COM NMPP-PC-2009/5.1-5, 17
Origination: Mandela, Nelson
Originals location: Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer: Accession number 2009/5 Deposited by Nelson Mandela Date received - unknown
Finding aids: Finding aid available
Extent and Medium: 1 printed desk calendar, 1 page of a printed desk calendar
Conditions governing reproduction: Copyright held by the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory
Conditions governing access: Access by permission of the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory
Collection: Desk Calendars from Prison