On 30 March Mandela is one of thousands detained under a state of emergency. After a four-and-a-half-year trial, where he and scores of other people were charged with high treason, Mandela and the last 27 remaining accused are acquitted. He goes underground.
Mandela leaves the country for military training, and to gather support for the newly formed armed wing of the ANC, Umkhonto we Sizwe Spear of the Nation.
He is sentenced to five years in prison, for incitement and leaving the country illegally. Appears, for the first time, with 10 others in the Palace of Justice in Pretoria. They become the accused in the Rivonia Trial. The case is remanded to 29 October. Prosecutor Percy Yutar announces that Bob Hepple is to become a state witness. He is released and skips the country. In the mids, Mandela rejected offers to go free in exchange for a renunciation of violence.
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An iconic figure of anti-racism, Nelson Mandela, the leader of a movement to end South African apartheid, was released from prison on 11 February, Related News. Jesse Jackson, speaking at a church service outside Cape Town shortly before Mandela was released, commended the South African government for making a "courageous step" but said "the pillars of apartheid remain in place.
A thunderous cheer went up as the man who was the world's most famous prisoner walked hand-in-hand with his wife, Winnie, through the gate of Victor Verster prison in Paarl, 35 miles from Cape Town. Under a brilliant blue sky, the Mandelas gave clenched-fist salutes to the hundreds of supporters who had waited for hours outside, many of them waving green, gold and black ANC flags and wearing T-shirts emblazoned with a youthful image of Mandela.
Mandela appeared solemn and dignified as he and Winnie walked to a white BMW sedan and climbed in. He broke into a broad smile as the car set off slowly in a police-escorted motorcade. The decision to free Mandela, after a prolonged international campaign on his behalf, was announced Saturday by President F.
Eight days earlier, de Klerk stunned the nation by lifting a year ban on the ANC and announcing other reforms aimed at clearing the way for black-white negotiations. De Klerk, who spoke at length Saturday on Mandela's release, stayed out of the public eye Sunday. Anton Pretorius, a de Klerk spokesman, said the president planned to comment on Mandela's release later in the week. Government television, however, broadcast live Mandela's exit from prison and later showed most of the ANC leader's speech.
His elderly appearance probably shocked many South Africans, the majority of whom were born after Mandela was last seen publicly in
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