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Free Nelson Mandela

The release of ANC leader Nelson Mandela from Robbens Island Prison by the apartheid government of South Africa in February 1990, having spent 27 years in prison. He is greeted by his then wife Winnie Mandela.

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On the RecordNelson Mandela Release Special

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