Video and Audio Archive
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(Above) Newsreader audio of the day Madiba was released from prison.
Location: Outside Victor Verster prison on 11 February 1990.
Do you remember where you were the day Mandela was released?
- Anti-Apartheid activist and politician, Helen Suzman, remembers her first meeting with Nelson Mandela on Robben Island. watch video (outside link)
- The day Madiba was released from prison. Outside Victor Verster prison on 11 February 1990 when Mandela is released after 27 years. watch video (outside link)
- 'Is the ball in the ANC’s court?' Here Nelson Mandela shares his hope and dream for change to occur in his lifetime, that the ANC can get a mandate from its people, to make change. listen (outside link)
- Listen to this audio clip of Nelson Mandela making his ANC statement on the party’s birthday on January 8, 1994. listen (outside link)
- Listen to the chant from a stadium in Soweto as the crowd waited for Nelson Mandela on February 13, 1990. listen (outside link)
- Listen to Nelson Mandela talk about the prosecution of the liberation struggle. He elaborates on the unity of the ANC and its allies, the fear of white people and the issue of nationalization. listen (outside link)
- Veteran SA photographer Peter Magubane talks about his career as Mandela's official photographer in an audio slideshow. listen (outside link)
- The BBC's audio slideshow, 'Mandela at 90'. Includes radio archive and interviews with Nelson Mandela, his law partner Oliver Tambo, and friend and liberal politician Helen Suzman. listen (outside link)
The majority of the audio and video clips below were sourced from 'thetimes.co.za' website.