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Jon Qwelane interviews Nelson Mandela (Part 1)
On Sunday the 11th of February 1990, after 27 years behind bars, Nelson Mandela walked out of Victor Verster Prison, a free man. Just over 4-years later, as ANC president, he led the party into South Africa’s first democratic elections. In one of his last major media interviews before the polls op…
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Jon Qwelane interviews Nelson Mandela (Part 2)
On Sunday the 11th of February 1990, after 27 years behind bars, Nelson Mandela walked out of Victor Verster Prison, a free man. Just over 4-years later, as ANC president, he led the party into South Africa’s first democratic elections. In one of his last major media interviews before the polls op…
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Jon Qwelane interviews Nelson Mandela (Part 3)
On Sunday the 11th of February 1990, after 27 years behind bars, Nelson Mandela walked out of Victor Verster Prison, a free man. Just over 4-years later, as ANC president, he led the party into South Africa’s first democratic elections. In one of his last major media interviews before the polls op…
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Dennis Smith takes calls on alleged airlift planning
Now around this time 25 years ago, there was a fair amount of anxiety and fear of the unknown. Millions of South Africans were about to vote for the first time, some major parties did not want to take part in the poll, right wingers were planting bombs, while political violence in what was Natal th…
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Election Watch with Desmond Hamill
As part of 702’s extensive coverage of South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994, senior award-winning ITN reporter, Desmond Hamill, was brought on board to produce a feature called Election Watch. His brief was to cover election-related events and political developments in the lead-up to t…
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Jon Qwelane interviews FW de Klerk (Part I)
One of the main parties contesting the 1994 democratic elections was the National Party. Best known for legislating Apartheid in 1948, the party finally decided to reform and negotiate with the ANC on the transition to democracy. FW de Klerk, South Africa’s president at the time, joined Jon Qwelane…
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Jon Qwelane interviews FW de Klerk (Part II)
One of the main parties contesting the 1994 democratic elections was the National Party. Best known for legislating Apartheid in 1948, the party finally decided to reform and negotiate with the ANC on the transition to democracy. FW de Klerk, South Africa’s president at the time, joined Jon Qwelane…
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John Berks interviews Cyril Ramaphosa
In 1994, a young Cyril Ramaphosa was Secretary General of the ANC. He’d been elected to the role after many years as a trade unionist, eventually leading the powerful National Union of Mineworkers. Many believed that Ramaphosa was being groomed to replace Mandela as President in 1999. But that wasn…
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John Robbie on media and pagers
25 years ago in technology terms, is equivalent to a couple of lifetimes. This was when cell phones started becoming available in the country. 1994 was also the year democratic South Africa was born. The most popular form of mobile communication at that time was the pager – a foreign piece of equip…
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Jenny Crwys-Williams gets a call from Frikkie
Today 25 years ago, voting was taking place around the country in South Africa’s first democratic election. The 27 of April 1994, was in fact the second of 4 days of voting. Special voting had started the day before, the 26th of April. That day also saw the new South African flag raised for the fir…
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