Mandela walks free
February 11, 1990
After twenty-seven years in prison, Nelson Mandela walked out of Victor Verster prison near Cape Town holding the hand of his wife Winnie, his fist raised. A world that had last seen him as a black-haired lawyer now saw a tall gray seventy-one-year-old. Apartheid was not yet dead, but it was finally dying.
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