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Morning NewsCNN 20: Nelson Mandela Prison Release, February 11, 1990Aired February 11, 2000 - 10:27 a.m. ETTHIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: First, a look back, 10 years to the day, Nelson Mandela walked out of prison. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) F.W. DE CLERK, SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT: I am now in a position to announce that Mr. Nelson Mandela will be released at the... (END VIDEO CLIP) GARY STREIKER, INTL. CORRESPONDENT: Most whites in the country felt that the time had come for a change and that something had to be done to pull South Africa out of this time warp that it was in. But there was a significant minority of whites in the country who thought that de Klerk and his people were fools, that they were traitors. I don't think many black South Africans ever felt that they would ever see Nelson Mandela alive out of prison, and here it happened. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's Mr. Mandela, Mr. Nelson Mandela, a free man taking his first steps into a new South Africa. (END VIDEO CLIP) STREIKER: Everywhere you went in South Africa you'd see on the faces of black South Africans these beaming smiles. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm very pleased that Mandela is coming. Mandela is the freedom of the new South Africa. (END VIDEO CLIP) STREIKER: Mandela served his presidency and retired. Thabo Mbeki is now president. He's assumed the responsibility for doing the kinds of things that Nelson Mandela did while he was president. (END VIDEOTAPE) TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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