Translation of the first lesson of Unit 5 of Senior 1 English Compulsory 2

My name is Elias. I am a poor black worker in South Africa. The first time I met Nelson Mandela, it was a very difficult time in my life.

I was 12 years old in 1952, and Mandela was a black lawyer I turned to for help. He provided legal guidance to poor blacks. He was very generous in giving me time, and I am very grateful for that.

Since I had very little education, I needed his help. I started school when I was six years old, and the school I attended for only two years was three kilometers away. I had to drop out of school because my family could not continue to pay for tuition and transportation.

I don't know much about reading or writing. It took me a long time before I got a job at a gold mine. At that time, however, you had to have an ID card to live in Johannesburg.

Unfortunately, I don't have this document because I wasn't born there, and I'm worried about whether I'm going to be unemployed. The day Nelson Mandela helped me was the happiest day of my life. He told me how to get the documents I needed to establish myself in Johannesburg.

I am full of hope for my future. I will never forget how kind he was to me, and when he organized the ANC Youth Alliance, I joined it right away. He said:

Over the past 30 years, a plethora of laws have taken our rights away and hindered our progress, and to this day we are at a stage where we have almost no rights. "He's telling the truth. Blacks did not have the right to vote at that time, and they did not have the right to choose their leaders.

They can't do what they want to do. The urban areas they were able to live in were all determined by white people. The out-of-town areas where they were sent were among the poorest in South Africa.

There, no one was able to grow crops. In fact, as Larson Mandela put it: "....We are put in such a situation:

Either we are forced to accept the reality of inferiority, or we struggle with the **. We choose to go on the offensive with the law. First of all, we break the law in a peaceful way, and when that way is not allowed, we ,......It is only then that we decide to fight violence with violence.

In fact, I don't like violent ,......But in 1963, I helped him blow up some of the most ** buildings. That's a dangerous thing to do, because if I get caught, I'm probably going to go to jail. However, I am happy to help because I know that this is to fulfill our dream of equality between blacks and whites.