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.
In context
Also in 1990 (5 other events on record)
- German reunification · Europe · Politics
- Hubble Space Telescope launched · North America · Science
- Iraq invades Kuwait · Middle East · War
- Lithuania declares independence · Europe · Politics
- Hubble and first web server · Europe · Technology
Before and after in Africa
Before and after in Politics
Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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