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Morning News

CNN 20: Nelson Mandela Prison Release, February 11, 1990

Aired February 11, 2000 - 10:27 a.m. ET

THIS 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.

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F.W. DE CLERK, SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT: I am now in a position to announce that Mr. Nelson Mandela will be released at the...

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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.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's Mr. Mandela, Mr. Nelson Mandela, a free man taking his first steps into a new South Africa.

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STREIKER: Everywhere you went in South Africa you'd see on the faces of black South Africans these beaming smiles.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm very pleased that Mandela is coming. Mandela is the freedom of the new South Africa.

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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.

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