
Image Number:
APN754972
APN754972
Headline: In his 1990 visit to Australia, Nelson Mandela, is warmly received by a diverse range of citizens, diplomats and dignitaries. To them all, Mandela expresses his thanks for the vital support the ANC received during his 27 year incarceration. Title: Photographic Colour Print Description: Australia, October 1990. PHOTO: ANC Archives: Australian Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, (front and left), and Nelson Mandela, (second from the right), (Deputy President of the African National Congress). Mandela expresses his thanks to Hawke, leader of the Australian Labour Party, for their activism against the oppressive apartheid government, during the years of Mandela's incarceration. The irony is that Australia is experiencing its own discriminatory problems in respect of its treatment of Aborigines. Monday 22 October to Saturday 27 October 1990. Country: Australia Date Created: 26-10-1990 Creator: ANC Archives Credit Notice: ANC Archives / african.pictures Keywords:- Robert Hawke
- Robert James Lee Hawke
- Bob Hawke
- Australian Prime Minister
- Australian Labour Party
- Labour Party
- Australian visit
- diplomacy
- Australian human rights activist
- Nelson Mandela
- Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
- Mandela
- Madiba
- President of South Africa
- African National Congress (ANC)
- ANC
- politicians
- political
- politics
- freedom fighters
- anti-apartheid
- liberation struggle
- political activists
- anti-apartheid activists
- 1990s
- October 1990
- Australia
- ANC Archives