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The short walk that ended apartheid
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On 11 February 1990, Nelson Mandela and his first wife Winnie raise their fists in jubilation as Mandela walks free from the Victor Verster prison after 27 years of captivity and a global campaign to have him freed. (Picture: Alexander Joe)
It is twenty years since Mandela ended his twenty-seven-year confinement as a political prisoner. As South Africa celebrates, we look back at his life