Mandela reflects on 20 years

[struggle4progress]

2010-02-05 12:13
Nelson Mandela remembers 20 years of freedom

Johannesburg - In February 1990, ANC activist Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela walked out of the gates of Victor Verster prison a free man after being jailed for 27 years by the apartheid regime.

There to meet him were members of the National Reception Committee, who helped Mandela as he took the first steps to his election four years later as SA's first democratically elected president.

On Thursday this week, former members of the committee and family members gathered in Johannesburg to reminisce about that day, 20 years ago ...

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