ANC ELECTION CAMPAIGN: LAST RALLY AT FNB STADIUM ADDRESSED BY MANDELA & THABO MBEKI WINNIE MANDELA

Record ID: 895007

  • Title: ANC ELECTION CAMPAIGN: LAST RALLY AT FNB STADIUM ADDRESSED BY MANDELA & THABO MBEKI WINNIE MANDELA
  • Date: 30th May 1999
  • Summary: ANC ELECTION CAMPAIGN: LAST RALLY AT FNB STADIUM ADDRESSED BY MANDELA & THABO MBEKI WINNIE MANDELA
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  • City: SOWETO
  • Country: South Africa
  • Reuters ID: 99MAY30R03
  • Story Text:ANC ELECTION CAMPAIGN: LAST RALLY AT FNB STADIUM ADDRESSED BY MANDELA & THABO MBEKI

    00.00.14 VARIOUS GV'S OF EXCITED ANC SUPPORTERS WITH HAND FLAGS & PLACCARDS
    00.00.59 HUGE BANNER OF MBEKI
    00.01.15 WIDE PAN OF CROWDS IN STADIUM
    00.01.39 MAN WITH ANC FLAG PAINTED ON HIS FACE
    00.01.53 HUGE BANNER OF MBEKI WITH VOTING CROSS ON SOCCER FIELD
    00.02.03 BANNER OF MANDELA & MBEKI HOLDING HANDS - "SIYANQOBA [VICTORY] RALLY"
    00.03.22 MANDELA & MBEKI ON GOLF CART DRIVING AROUND STADIUM
    00.04.44 MANDELA & MBEKI WAVING AT CROWDS
    00.05.15 STRONG SECURITY
    00.05.51 ARRIVAL WINNIE MANDELA WEARING MBEKI T-SHIRT
    00.06.46 MANDELA & MBEKI SEATED ON STAGE
    00.07.19 WIDE OF CHIOR SINGING ANTHEM
    00.09.03 WIDE GV'S OF PACHED STADIUM
    00.10.03 MANDELA DANCING THE JIG WITH THE CHIOR
    00.11.39 MANDELA PODIUM - CROWDS GOING NUTS ON SONG "NELSON MANDELA" - SARAFINA - MANDELA DANCING WITH CROWDS BEHIND HIM
    00.12.54 MANDELA SPEECH
    00.13.18 ...we are winning. We have walked a long and hard path to arrive here...
    00.14.31 ...we queued across this beautiful land in our millions to strike Apartheid's death blow with our vote...
    00.14.59 ...we became heroes to the world, we were free at last! but you did not vote the ANC into office to celebrate, you elected us to take forward the struggle, to overcome the suffering & inequality so rife after 350 years of oppression...
    00.15.51 ...just 5 years ago we ended a government that made the majority of people foreigners in our country; together we won our freedom and dignity. today we can walk tall & proudly say, we are all South Africans...
    00.16.28 In the first 5 years we have fought against the odds to change a government geared to serve the interests of a minority into one that serves all South Africans. Our experience confirmed that that progress would be difficult...but now change is happening...
    00.17.15 TALKING ABOUT ANC'S SUCCESSES REGARDING HOUSING, WATER, ELECTRICITY, COMMUNICATION, HEALTH, EDUCATION
    00.18.27 ...in this last 5 years as your government we have accepted your challenge to uplift the poorest and the most oppressed while fighting for a better life for all, but much more remains to be done...
    00.19.01 ...despite the huge gains that have been made, too many of you remain homeless, poor and illiterate so how can we gather here today to say, we are winning?! We say we are winning because we understand that the Struggle did not end 5 years ago, we know that reversing 350 years of oppression will take more than 5 years...GIVES MORE REASONS
    00.20.25 WAS IN NIGERIA WITH KNOWLEDGE THAT SA SUCCESS DEPENDS ON ALL COUNTRIES OF AFRICAN CONTINENT
    00.20.59 ADMIRING THABO MBEKI...the man I am pleased to call, my President, comrade Thabo Mbeki
    00.21.32 ...the same ANC torch will be carried on...
    00.22.01 CALLING UPON COMMUNITIES TO MOBILISE OVERWHELMING ANC VICTORY
    00.22.30 ...two ballots, one organization; two ballots vote ANC, whether for the national or Provincial government, we want you to vote ANC...
    00.23.00 WIDE OF MANDELA ON PODIUM WITH THOUSANDS BEHIND HIM
    00.24.38 MBEKI WAVING - CROWDS GOING NUTS
    00.26.22 WINNIE MANDELA CLAPPING
    00.33.12 MBEKI SPEECH
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