CAPE TOWN (AFP) – South Africa heaped praise on Nelson Mandela Thursday as the nation celebrated the 20th anniversary of his release from prison, an earth-shaking event which hastened the demise of apartheid.
Key figures of the anti-apartheid struggle including Archbishop Desmond Tutu paid tribute to the 91-year-old icon in a ceremony at the former Victor Verster Prison from which Mandela was released after nearly three decades in captivity.
Hundreds of people re-enacted the historic moment when the black leader, hand in hand with his then-wife Winnie, walked proudly out of the prison with his fist raised high as the world watched. (AP)
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