Mandela may be released
- Title
- Mandela may be released
- Genre
- News report; Speech
- TX Date
- 18 Aug 1988
- Year of production
- 1988
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- Duration
- 00:02:31
- Description
- Bill Prince reports from Cape Town on a speech by South African President, P.W. Botha at the opening of the National Party congress in Durban, proposing the release of ANC leader Neson Mandela (who is now in a Cape Town hospital suffering from a form of tuberculosis) should he reject the use of violence. Includes excerpts of Botha’s speech.
- Contributors
- P. W. Botha; Bill Prince
- Keywords
- Interethnic relations; South Africa; Apartheid; Political conferences; Conferences; Imprisonment; Black African peoples; Nelson Mandela; Cape Town; National Party (South Africa); Tuberculosis
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