Nelson Mandela

Robin Day’s report reveals the verdict on Nelson Mandela’s lengthy trial for sabotage from outside the court in Pretoria, South Africa. Richard Dimbleby introduces.

Nelson Mandela walks to freedom after 27 years in prison on Robben Island.

John Simpson and Robin Denselow report from South Africa on the day that Nelson Mandela became President.

Nelson Mandela explains to David Dimbleby why he joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1944, and why he despised the instigators of the Apartheid regime.

In 1960, 69 unarmed apartheid protestors were shot dead by the police in Sharpeville township. Nelson Mandela speaks from hiding about how he and others had become frustrated by the peaceful approach of the ANC, which was banned immediately after the massacre.

Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for a total of 27 years. Here he reflects philosophically on his time in Robben Island prison, where he was held from 1964-1990. James Gregory, his warder, also contributes.

Nelson Mandela’s retirement from politics didn’t reduce his standing as a revered world statesman. Here, his wife Graca Machel explains why she thinks her husband became a global icon.

Schooled as a leader from childhood, Nelson Mandela reveals the earliest influences on his thinking, and the arranged marriage which made him to flee to Johannesburg.

In 1985 secret and complex release talks began between a still-imprisoned Nelson Mandela and the South African government. FW De Klerk, Mandela and other key figures reveal how his release from prison was planned.

Authors Deborah Posel and Adam Hochschild explain how the oppressive and pervasive South African system of Apartheid affected every part of life, from where you could live to who you could marry.