Nelson Mandela has made the transistion from freedom fighter to world figure as no other man could have dome in the cauldron of world history. This warm and revealing programme chronicles the life of the man and the stage on which he has moved South Africa from enmity to amity. In an extended interview Mandela outlines the major stages in his life and through a compbination of atmoshpheric recreations, interviews and archive footage we discover something of the man himself, who has remained an enigma. In this fascinating programme, the quiet considered statesman of the present shows many different sides to the man who single handily saved South Africa from the brink of bloody civil war at the end of apartheid. |
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| The highly controversial figure of his first wife, Winnie, talks openly about the years of struggle and price for freedom that anyone involved in the fight can end up paying, visit the grim setting of Robben Island and see where Mandela was incarcerated.Nobel Peace prize winner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu speaks freely about this remarkable man as does Mandela's new wife, Madame Graca Machal and Ahmed Kathrada and Tokyo Sexwale, who were both imprisoned with Mandela on Robben Island. | |