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In an exclusive clip from the BBC Archive, watch Nelson Mandela speak about his historic release from prison, which was a watershed moment for South Africa in its transition to democracy.

Mandela served 27 years total in prison. Nelson Mandela’s old prison cell on Robben Island, South Africa, pictured in 2009 (Picture: Shaun Botterill/Getty Images) He was first imprisoned at ...

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Nelson Mandela wrote hundreds of letters during the 27 years that he was imprisoned; heartbreaking letters to his family, more mundane notes requesting spectacles from prison governors ...

Nelson Mandela met with then-United States President George Bush at the White House on June, 25, 1990, four months after his release from prison. Dirck Halstead/TIME & LIFE Images 16 ...

“Nelson Mandela – I’d never heard the name before in my life,” a former prison guard to the South African icon recalls. Christo Brand casts his mind back to 1978, and his first night ...

South African President Nelson Mandela, born on July 18, 1918, spent nearly three decades in prison during his struggle against apartheid, before he was released on Feb. 11, 1990. On Dec. 5 ...

On this day in 1990, Nelson Mandela, the leader of the movement to end apartheid in South Africa, was released from prison after 27 years. Born in 1918, Mandela joined the African National ...

If Nelson Mandela were indeed with us to celebrate this special day and had the power to enact his values in our prison system, it is virtually certain that he would seek to dismantle our system ...

Plus his real birth name and how he got to be called Nelson NELSON Mandela was a globally hailed hero who fought for freedom and the end of the apartheid struggle. The Nobel Peace Prize winner is ...