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...When Nelson Mandela stepped through the gates of Victor Verster Prison Farm last week, TIME's Peter Magubane was on hand to photograph the moment. The two men would not have the opportunity to embrace until two days later, however, when Magubane would be called to a secret location on Mandela's first day back in Johannesburg. "I wasn't taking pictures," Magubane says. "I said, 'You look quite good. You haven't changed.' It was a relief to see him out of prison." Two nights later, the two men, who have known each other nearly 40 years, shared...
...Jesse Jackson likes to be where the action is, and so he was in South Africa just in time for the release of Nelson Mandela. "It's a bold and courageous act," said Jackson, lauding State President F.W. de Klerk's announcement. De Klerk looked less kindly on Jackson's visit. Asked if the arrival of the American politician had any bearing on the timing of Mandela's release, De Klerk replied tersely, "His presence is totally irrelevant...
...sentence in the courtroom that day in June 1964 was life in prison. The verdict of history will hardly judge Nelson Mandela a common criminal. Despite the government's determination to lock him away for good and crush his liberation movement, the unrelenting crusade to abolish apartheid that he waged from a prison cell over the decades made him the supreme symbol of the black struggle in South Africa...
...local time on Sunday, Feb. 11, Nelson Mandela walked out of the Victor Verster Prison Farm near Cape Town -- free at last. It was, said an announcer for the official South African Broadcasting Corp., "the moment that a majority of South Africans, and the world, have been waiting...
...Freedom for Nelson Mandela pushes South Africa into uncharted waters...