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From Our Own Correspondent: Mandela: Five Correspondents' Stories

07/12/2013

Mandela: Five Correspondents' Stories

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, Mandela: Five Correspondents' Stories

BBC News correspondents tell stories of their encounters with Nelson Mandela.

Fergal Keane, John Simpson, Milton Nkosi, Hamilton Wende and James Robbins tell stories of their encounters with the former South African president, who died on Thursday.

Nelson Mandela: a special programme featuring five correspondents who will never forget how their own stories came to coincide with that of the great South African leader, who died on Thursday. Fergal Keane was our man in Johannesburg as Mr Mandela fought to keep his country back from the brink of civil war; John Simpson on the day he met a man who had 'become perhaps the most revered person on earth.' Milton Nkosi recalls the risks taken to keep the name of Nelson Mandela alive in the townships during his long years of imprisonment; Hamilton Wende on what it was like, as a white South African, growing up in a country where even talking of Mr Mandela could be dangerous and James Robbins on the long-awaited day when the man who went on to lead the country was freed from prison and appeared before a jubilant crowd in Cape Town. 

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