First of a three-part series in which leading South African political figures tell the inside story of how the white minority government in the Republic conceded powertotheirformer bitter enemies, the Africa" National Congress, in a transition that avoided the bloody revolution many feared.
With contributions from F W de Klerk, Archbishop Desmond Tutu , Chief Buthelezi and Eugene Terre ' Blanche.
The Prisoner. Despite the isolation of his imprisonment with a life sentence, Nelson Mandela was hard at work in the mid-1980s, setting up secret lines of communication with the authorities.
With unrest in the black townships growing and economic pressure beginningto bite, the white minority rulers realised that without fundamental changes the country would be ungovernable. In revealing the details of those negotiations, the programme tells a remarkable story which ended with Mandela a free man in February 1990 and the ban on the ANC rescinded. Narrated by South African journalist Allister Sparks.
Director/Producer Mick Gold Subtitled .. * See This Week: page 7