Tha Màiri Ward a' còmhradh ri Iain Moireasdan mu a beatha ann an Afraga a Deas agus mar a thàinig siostam apartheid gu crìoch. Bha Mairi a' fuireach is ag obair anns an dùthaich bho 1972 chun na naochadan. Chunnaic i mar a bha apartheid a' sgaradh na daoine dubha agus geala gu mi-chothromach. Tha cuimhne aig Màiri air an latha eachdraidheil a chaidh am prìosanach poilitigeach as ainmeil air an t-saoghal, Nelson Mandela, a shaoradh às dèidh 27 bliadhna sa phrìosan.

Tha Màiri ag innse gur e àm dòchasach a bha seo ach àm mì-chìnnteach cuideachd oir cha robh fios aig duine de bhiodh romhpa. Aig a' chiad taghadh nàiseanta deamocrataigeach ann an 1994, ghlèidh pàrtaidh Mgr. Mandela, an African National Congress, a' bhòt. Chaidh Mandela a thaghadh mar a' chiad cheann-suidhe dubh air an dùthaich.

Mary Ward talks to John Morrison about her life spent in South Africa and what it was like witnessing the end of the apartheid system, which segregated the population along racial lines.

Mary had been living and working in South Africa from 1971 until the 1990s. She saw first-hand how apartheid worked and the inequality it created. Mary remembers vividly the historic day when perhaps the world's most famous political prisoner, Nelson Mandela, was released after 27 years in prison. Mary says this was a time of great hope in the country, but also of uncertainty, as no-one knew what lay ahead.

After South Africa's first fully democratic elections in 1994, the previously banned ANC formed a government, and Nelson Mandela was appointed as the country's first black president. Show less