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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa--Walter Sisulu, senior leader of the African National Congress and colleague of Nelson Mandela, was freed yesterday after 25 years in prison...
...Mandela, the ANC's most prominent jailed leader, remains in prison, although his release within the next few months is widely expected...
Justice Minister Kobie Coetsee and other government officials had conferred with Mandela prior to de Klerk's announcement...
Four other ANC leaders who had been flown to Johannesburg from Cape Town on Friday also reportedly were freed yesterday. These include three men sentenced to life prison terms in 1964 along with Sisulu and Mandela--Andrew Mlengeni, 63, Elias Mostsoaledi, 65, and Ahmed Kathrada, 60--and another ANC leader, Wilton Mkwayi, 67, who was sentenced to a life prison term in a separate 1964 trial...
...African National Congress is one of the oldest liberation movements in the world and therefore one of the least effective. Founded by black professionals and hereditary chiefs as a modest political lobby, it turned to "armed struggle" under the guidance of Nelson Mandela after it was outlawed in 1960, but never mounted a significant threat to the government in either guise. Today the exiled A.N.C. is looking to change its fortunes. In collaboration with the new domestic antiapartheid coalition, called the Mass Democratic Movement, it has issued a proposal for peace talks with Pretoria. "The question of a negotiated settlement...