WATCH: 30 years since Mandela’s release from prison
CAPE TOWN – 11 February 1990 saw the release of iconic freedom fighter Nelson Mandela after a heroic 27-years behind bars.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of when Mandela stepped out of the Victor Verster prison now known as the Drakenstein Correctional Centre.
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Four years later Mandela would lead South Africa to democracy becoming the country’s first democratically elected president.
Mandela died in 2013 at his Johannesburg home aged 95.
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