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Turning point · The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994
Mandela walks free
11 Feb 1990 — After 27 years, Nelson Mandela leaves Victor Verster prison on foot, fist raised. Nine days earlier F. W. de Klerk had unbanned the ANC. Negotiation, not conquest, will end apartheid.
This is one scene of Chapter 10 — Apartheid’s Long Fall in The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994.
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