Freedom for Nelson Mandela

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CONTENTS

• PREPARING FOR NELSON MANDELA’S RELEASE

• THE DAY OF FREEDOM11 February 1990

• THE IMMEDIATE IMPACT


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PREPARING FOR NELSON MANDELA’S RELEASE


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28 August 1988A step-by-step release of the ANC leader, Nelson

Mandela, may already be under way, according

to persistent speculation in Government circles.


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11 December 1988The name of 70-year-old Nelson Mandela –

now living in a gilded prison near Paarl –

featured large in the closing stagges of the

Delmas treason trial this week.


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11 December 1988In a strange paradox, Nelson Mandela now lives

in a home meant for one of his jailers.


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16 April 1989The new-look National Party is to revive its stalled

attempts to draw blacks into negotiations about a

future South Africa.


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9 July 1989President Botha and Mr Nelson Mandela met in

Cape Town this week. The historic encounter – one of the

most sensational developments in South African politics

for decades – took place in Tuynhuys on Wednesday.


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16 July 1989Suddenly, out of clear blue sky, flashed a series of political

thunderbolts that allow us, for the first time in decades, to think

the unthinkable. For optimists the prospects are dizzying.

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16 July 1989This is the world’s most celebrated prisoner, Nelson

Mandela, painted by Alistair Findlay. Artist and subject

have never met.


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24 September 1989Jailed ANC leader Nelson Mandela had an unusual request when a

close friend called on him this week. As the last showers of a wet Cape

winter fell the 71-year-old activist asked for a raincoat.


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-22 October 1989Freed ANC Western Cape president Oscar Mpetha

this week revealed that he had been told by MrNelson Mandela to preach a message of unity and

peace in an effort to halt government “violence”.

14 January 1990A fascinating insight into Nelson Mandela’s lifestyle

in his prison bungalow at Paarl has been given to a

lifelong friend.


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14 January 1990The stage is set. All the main players are in position, except one

towering figure, waiting in the wings. When Nelson Mandela

takes his rightful place on the South Afr ican political stage, an

entrance that now seems certain within weeks rather thanmonths, the curtain will rise.


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14 January 1990Senior members of the ANC in exile may return to South

Africa shortly to re-organise the movement internally

and become involved in the negotiating process.


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28 January 1990Nelson Mandela normally gets up at 3:30 every morning at his “home”

in Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town. He follows a daily ritual,according to friends, relatives and associates who have visited him.


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4 February 1990Tucked away in a dusty corner of Transkei is

Mrs Evelyn Mandela, 68, divorced wife of the

world’s most famous prisoner.


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4 February 1990Forget Berlin, dump Rumania. If this is February,

it must be Mandela’s release.


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4 February 1990South Africa burst out laughing, crying, talking and

marching this week with the news that the ANC, PAC and

South African Communist Party had been unbanned.


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4 February 1990The imminent release of Mr Nelson Mandela and the unbanning of the

major extra-parliamentary bodies by State President F W de Klerk has

opened the door to “liberation politics” effectively initiated the demise

of ethnic political parties and may have tolled the bell on the future of

the tricameral Parliament.


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THE DAY OF FREEDOM

11 FEBRUARY 1990


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THE IMMEDIATE IMPACT


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18 February 1990First face-to-face talks between the Government and the

ANC may be only weeks away. If they’re successful, full-scale

negotiations could get under way soon afterwards.


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18 February 1990The smart grey suit Mr Nelson Mandela wore as he walked

out of Victor Verster Prison was provided by a friend who

owns a clothes shop.

The house where Mr Nelson spent his first sight in

Johannesburg after 27 years is a modest suburban

home which at first glance resembles a nursery school.


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