September 24, 1993 - Please Lift Sanctions - a podcast by Stephen Hammond

Nelson Mandela asks the UN to lift sanctions against South Africa. When Nelson Mandela addressed the United Nations General Assembly on September 24, 1993, he boldly asked the world to lift sanctions against his country, South Africa. A political prisoner for 27 years under apartheid, Mandela had become a symbol of the oppressive white minority rule in a country populated mostly by blacks. Mandela, president of the once outlawed African National Congress, told the assembly, “The countdown to democracy has begun. On April 27, 1994, all the people of South Africa, without discrimination on grounds of gender, race, color or belief, will join in the historic act of electing a government of their choice.” Cities and countries around the world immediately lifted sanctions that had been in place for a generation or more.

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