Question

Letters between members of this family make up the second half of the memoir 491 Days, the amount of time one of them spent in solitary confinement. A member of this family stated that “with our boxes of matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this (10[1])country,” (10[1])which (10[1])was seen as endorsing (10[1])extrajudicial killings called necklacings. (10[13])Jerry (10[2])Richardson (10[1])led a group of (10[1])violent bodyguards (10[1])of a member of this family (10[1]-5[1])that killed (10[1])teenage activist (10[1])Stompie Seipei, (10[1])known as (-5[1])[this family’s] “United (10[1])Football Club.” A member of this family referenced the Sharpeville massacre (10[2])in a speech in which (10[1])he claimed a “democratic and free society” (10[1])is “an ideal for which I am prepared to die,” (10[3])which (10[1])was delivered (-5[1])during the Rivonia Trial. (10[4])For (10[1])10 points, name this family (10[2])of (10[1])Winnie (10[2])and the first president of South Africa, (10[1])Nelson. (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Mandela family [accept Nelson Mandela; accept Winnie Madikizela-Mandela; accept Mandela United Football Club; prompt on Winnie Madikizela or Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela by asking “into what family did she marry?”]
<Harvard A, World History>
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