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Ian Robertson on meeting Mandela: "I was airborne as my head hit the ceiling"
5 live rugby correspondent and former Scottish international Ian Robertson describes trying to get an interview with Nelson Mandela in 1992 during a reception where press where banned, yet Ian found himself face-to-face with Mandela and his bodyguards.
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