All language subtitles for madiba_s01e03_spear_of_the_nation_and_total_strategy_1

Those people were shot in the back as
they ran. It was murder.

Non -violence had always been our path.

We need a voice that can speak from the
safety of another country. I want those

troublemakers stopped.

I need to see your warrant. We don't
need one.

The struggle, your other family, if
everyone gets a piece of you, what is

The judges find all the accused not
guilty.

They could re -arrest you at any moment.
We need to move.

We have to move him!

Nobody's going to look for the Black
Pimpernel in this white suburb.

You'll be safe here, Nelson.

Thank you, Wolfie.

Well, you must be exhausted.

I'll sit up here on the couch. You take
my bed.

I'm not going to take your bed.

You're double my height.

Exactly. And you still wish to fight me
about it?

We cannot keep going like this.

We cannot keep asking people to strike
only to end up defenseless in front of a

firing squad.

Something has to change.

The man is charging around the country
at will, organizing mass civil

disturbance.

I promise, Prime Minister, we'll be
doing everything we can.

We have an army and we still can't find
them? We are infiltrating the ANC, sir.

In fact, we're learning that their old
rivalry with the PAC is reignited. With

any luck, their infighting should
actually work in our favor. Let me make

absolutely clear.

Mandela is attempting to organize
general strikes.

And if he succeeds, it will cause our
economy and confidence in our government

great deal of disturbance.

And whatever else he's doing, he makes
us look foolish.

Worse! Make us look incompetent.

So, I guess we're in business.

No, this Mandela's a slippery bastard.

He's a clever cat, huh?

Never underestimate American
intelligence.

I will find your man.

I have to get out.

I have to go for a run.

You can't. You're in a white area. I
need to run. It's how I clear my head.

What are you trying to clear your head
of?

My wife.

What? I cannot be as dedicated to the
movement as I need to be without putting

on blinders to every other aspect of
life. But I cannot put on blinders with

her, not with my wife.

I need to figure out our next step.

Rest assured, we won't follow.

Thank you, Settle.

Strike has failed. Then we try again. We
persist.

Giving up is exactly what they want us
to do. No one is talking about giving

But our entire strategy needs to be
reformed. But we've developed this

very carefully. We can't keep asking
people who are already poor to stay away

from work while they grow poorer and
they see no progress.

We can't keep setting them up to be
arrested or killed for their efforts.

action we undertake will be met with
overwhelming force. What exactly are you

suggesting?

I need to speak with the press.

There are many people who feel that it
is useless and futile

to continue to talk peace and non
-violence against a government.

whose only reply is savage attacks
against unarmed, defenseless people.

What the Africans want is simple.

One man, one vote.

We want political independence.

If Prime Minister Vervoort's government
does not give you the kind of

concessions that you want, is there any
likelihood that the ANC will turn to

violence? I think the time has come for
us to consider whether or not the

methods we have applied so far...

We already have one.

Only it is we who have to have it.

I appreciate your concern.

But that's not what this conversation is
about.

So, you don't agree with me?

Whatever I may or may not think about a
violent campaign, you decided,

unilaterally, to abandon the ANC's
principle all on your own. I decided no

thing. Nelson, you said... What I said
was a statement of fact. There are

who feel... Do not argue semantics with
me.

You were not on a court of law. You were
talking to a journalist.

to the world, to the people I am trying
to get support from.

And what they saw was one of the leading
voices of the ANC abandoning without

consultation the principle of non
-violence, which the ANC has been

for 40 years.

And now what I want to know is this.

What are we supposed to do to stop the
ANC from splintering from the crack you

have initiated?

Chief Lutuli has summoned us.

I will convince them that this is the
only way.

I need your support, Oliver.

My commitment to nonviolence from the
ANC is unshakable. The

nonviolence that we have advocated for
years demands moral courage.

You look to America at this Martin
Luther King and his freedom riders. They

pushing for change right now as we speak
with nonviolence. Yes, but they are

doing it with the support of the
American government because President

threatened to send in federal troops.
That is not our situation.

Fair vote is leading the violence here.
No,

no, no. I would plead with you all not
to embark on this cause.

Violence begets violence.

You say that violence begets violence,
but in South Africa, so does non

-violence. If we take up arms, we lose
all international support.

What support?

What has the so -called international
community ever done for us? Give me one

example.

Stop,

stop, stop.

Let us try to remember that we are on
the same side.

What Nelson and I do agree upon.

is above all. To win this war, we have
to stay together.

I will believe in non -violence to the
end.

But we must take a collective vote. And
when we decide, we have to find our way

back to unity.

Win or lose.

Before we vote, I would like the chance
to clarify my position.

We all have the same goal, a fully
democratic, multilateral South Africa.

to oppose the armed might of the South
African government with passive

resistance requires a kind of sacrifice.

It requires a level of courage that I no
longer have.

The fact is, if the ANC believes in its
vision, it must be prepared to fight for

it.

So, I propose the creation.

of an entire new wing of the ANC, which
would operate independently, yet

remain under the authority of the ANC.

The purpose of this section would be to
meet the government's armed aggression

with a campaign of sabotage, carefully
avoiding injury or loss of life,

selecting for its target government
properties, symbols of oppression, not

people. I assume you are talking about a
bombing campaign.

I don't want this any more than any of
you do.

If you can tell me there is another way
for us to fight realistically against

guns and armies, I will listen to it.

How long before it explodes?

10, 15 minutes.

The fuse is essentially acid eating
through cardboard.

Looks like we can make a bomb.

With a very short fuse, we need to do
something about that.

Yeah.

So how many would you need? 10, 20?

60, ready, in position across the
country, December 16th. All on the same

That river?

Dingante.

This year I would like to commemorate
the Africana victory over the Zulus a

little differently.

The locations are very careful. We hit
early in the morning when no one is

around. This is our first strike. No
mistake.

More casualty.

You hear the good news, boys?

Chief Latuli has just been awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize.

That is wonderful. It's wonderfully
ironic when you consider we're just

blow up half the country.

We're moving you.

Where? The South African Communist
Party's got a new underground

A bomb.

Will I get shot if I don't finish my
chores? You'll get shot if you hang

here much longer. Let's get... All
right.

We had made the right choice, but now we
carried a heavy burden.

Violence has an extraordinary power. It
can affect great change, but if you are

not careful, people both guilty and
innocent will die.

Submit or fight. These are the only
choices we have left in South Africa.

We have sought to achieve liberation
without bloodshed.

and hoped to bring the government and
its supporters to their senses before it

was too late.

For the sake of all of the people of
this country, black, brown, white.

Three more explosions, sir, in Durban
Amplitoria. How many is that now?

Fifty -seven.

Sir.

The ANC announces the birth of Mkonto
Wiseswe, the spirit of the nation.

It comes a time in the life of any
nation when there remain only two

submit or to fight.

We ask the government to enter into
negotiations with us.

To prevent South Africa descending into
a disastrous civil war.

Then war it is.

I

asked

you here to say goodbye.

What do you mean? I have to go abroad
for a while.

We need arms, money, training.

If we can build bombs from ballpoint
pens, imagine what we can do with

and the proper training, expertise.

How long are you going for? I don't
know.

I'm scared, Nelson.

What if they catch you?

What if something happens?

I am very good at looking after myself.

I will be okay.

And when will this hiding end? When will
it stop?

Okay,

let me come with you. I could bring the
children.

This is no life for children.

I am always on the move.

And this is no life for me as well.

You're not the only one in this family
who believes in the struggle.

I want to fight too.

You are doing that.

By holding us all together.

I need you to do that, Zemi.

Please, be strong.

I have so much faith in you.

Do you even know where you're going?

I wouldn't tell you even if I knew.

I've always wanted to travel the
continent.

One day we will, my love.

Ma Muin, Ma Muin, are you coming to the
meeting tonight?

If I can tell people Winnie Mandela is
going to be there, it would mean the

world to everybody. I will be there.

Wonderful, wonderful. Thank you, Ma.
Thank you.

No time.

Oliver.

Look at you.

How do you like Mandela and Tambo's new
offices?

Very nice.

Can we afford it? No.

How are Winnie and the kids? They are
fine. They are fine.

How did it go in Tanzania?

I was advised to drop the armed struggle
and cooperate with the PAC.

You were expecting this. The PAC got
here before us.

They've been telling anyone who will
listen that we are a tribal clique

with white communists and Indian
pacifists. They have positioned

the only true guardians of black
nationalism in South Africa.

How is the fundraising going?

It is coming.

As soon as we announced the armed
struggle, the commitment to funding the

started evaporating.

When do I see the president?

He won't see you.

Will he give us the money?

I am still working on it.

All the money in the world will not help
us if you do not teach us how to fight.

Why can't we just grab him, stuff him in
the car and say we took him on the

right side of the border?

No.

This is not the place to do it.

We do this by the book.

We'll take him in South Africa.

Can I get your papers?

Enjoy your day.

That was quite nerve -wracking.

We handled ourselves rather well, don't
you think, Nelson?

Very well.

Thank you, Cecil.

I have missed you all so much.

How are you feeling?

I am tired.

The last three weeks, the police have
set the house every single night.

Just before the girls go to bed.

But I'm okay.

You have enough on you.

Tell me about your trip.

There is a lot of support here on the
continent, but many African leaders

agree with me.

They cannot understand why we haven't
risen in revolt against such a small

minority of whites.

I cannot help but have this feeling,
this ominous feeling that

we are never going to have a normal life
together.

Oh, Sami, my darling.

Everything that we are fighting for is
so that we can have a normal life.

I'm invisible to him when they are here.

You should go over there and join them.

You are your father's firstborn son.

Take care to remember that.

I don't know why you stick up for him.

My mother is your cousin.

You should have stayed on his side in
the divorce.

Your mother is a very good woman.

But Nelson has been married to Winnie
for some time now.

You must respect that.

Yes, Uncle Walter.

I'm sorry for the disrespect.

When you are older, Timber, you might
find that being on his side is far more

complicated than it might appear.

My friends, our policy of non -racialism
is misunderstood in the rest of Africa.

We need to create the impression that we
are Africa for the Africans, not

communists or anything else. Yes, I
agree.

I recognize that this is a sensitive
issue. It goes against everything that

believe in. I understand that.

That is why I am only suggesting that we
create the impression we are Africa for

the Africans.

So, you are just talking about our
image.

It's what the people believe that is
important.

I see your point, Nathan.

But I'm not sure that Chief Lutuli will.

I intend to try and convince him.

In Natal? There are roadblocks from here
to Devon.

The Drago cannot afford to lose you.
Yes, but something this important, it

be done in person.

Diversities of color and race. Those are
the very things that are going to bring

South Africa into a new democracy. Non
-racialism is not about negating race.

Did anyone order dry cleaning?

They found us.

We're caught.

This can't be happening.

Stay in character.

Nelson Mandela!

You're under arrest!

It's confirmed.

Without a doubt?

None at all.

Can't have killed.

Court.

Thank you, Lord, for delivering unto us
the sinners who seek to destroy our

mission.

We look to you, my Lord, in this time of
our great need for support.

Gentlemen, I have to tell you

that the state has formally advised me
that they will

be seeking the death penalty.

They will be presenting evidence that
you deliberately and maliciously

a plan to overthrow the government by
violent means.

by unleashing trained guerrilla warfare
units as part of a military invasion by

hostile foreign powers.

I have

an

idea about the start of the trial.

We need to make a statement.

I will need you to bring me something.

It is very important.

Mrs.

Mandela, tell us what you think about
today.

Mrs. Mandela, do you expect your husband
to get a death penalty?

All right.

Quiet, please.

My Lord, the defense will begin with a
statement from the accused, Nelson

Mandela.

My Lord, I will not deny that I planned

sabotage. But I did not plan it because
I have any love of violence.

I planned it as the result of a calm and
sober assessment of the political

situation that has arisen in this
country after many years of oppression,

exploitation, and tyranny.

It is the struggle for the right to
live.

The right to live a normal life, which
is the right of every human being.

During my lifetime, I have dedicated
myself to that struggle.

I have fought against white domination,
and I have fought against black

domination.

I have cherished the ideal of a free...

and democratic society in which all
people can live together in harmony.

It is an ideal which I hope to live for
and to achieve.

But, if needs be, it is an ideal for
which I am prepared to

die.

I'm so grateful you have come.

My son, you will always be my blessing.

Thank you, Mama.

Tembi, I do not know how long I will be
gone, but you need to be the man now.

I already have been.

We must go.

Tembi.

I love you.

I hope you know that.

Thank you,

Bram, for all that you have done for us.

I have decided that no matter the
sentence, there will be no appeal.

By a significant coincidence, this, the
first day of the

committee's discussion on the policy of
apartheid, happens also to be the very

last day of a trial in South Africa,
which has as its primary aim

the punishment by death of people who
are among South Africa's most

opponents of the very policies which the
General Assembly

and the Security Council have passed
numerous resolutions calling upon the

African government to abandon Nelson
Mandela, being known personally

to a number of heads of state,

Bovan Beki, a top -ranking African
political leader, and an accomplished

economist who has borne the burden of
his oppressed fellow men ever since

he left

Ahmed Khatrada, a South African of
Indian extraction, who began his career

in politics as a passive leader in 1946
at the age of 17,

and has continued to be a leading
participant in the struggle of Indians

other forms of racial discrimination,
and joined the Africans in the

struggle.

I urge you to expect that the
developments that I have referred to

for the immediate action by the United
Nations.

For our part, I wish to observe that
every single day

spent in jail by any of our people,
every drop

of blood drawn from any of them,

Every life taken represents a unit of
human wealth

lost once.

This loss we can no longer afford.

The function of this court, as is the
function of the court in any country,

is to enforce the laws of the state
within which it functions.

The crime that the accused have been
convicted of, that is the main crime,

is in essence that of high treason.

Yeah? It's Joe.

Life imprisonment. All of them.

One moment.

All of them.

Life.

Get dressed.

You, curry muncher, get long pants.

I am formally requesting long trousers
for all of us.

Boys, get short pants.

Do I look like a boy to you?

You're black, right?

Then I say you're a boy.

You are all category D, the highest
security risk of all political

Every six months, you will be allowed
one visitor.

You may receive one letter and you may
write one letter of no more than 500

words.

You may not talk to each other. You may
not speak to us unless spoken to.

You have come to this island to be
forgotten and then to die.