SBS50: Biggest Story 1990
In 1990 Nelson Mandela was released from jail paving the way for democracy in South Africa. Arrested in 1962 for his campaign to get equal rights for black South Africans, Nelson Mandela was charged with treason and spent 27 years in a notorious prison on Robben Island, off the coast of Cape Town.
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