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Nelson Mandela has been in the Folks
Hospital for two weeks, recovering from

prostate operation, confined to a
heavily guarded ward.

His illness has caused grave concern,
not only to us as a family,

but to the entire world.

I remember that very clearly. Suddenly I
realised Mandela was no longer sitting

in jail. He was in hospital where I had
my consults at.

1985.

Our country become ungovernable.

Bloodshed on the streets all over.

And that's the time Mandela ended up in
hospital with a prostate length.

The government was worried if this
cancer spread and Mandela died in

there won't be an uprising in South
Africa.

There will be a war.

So the Minister of Justice, Kubi Kutsi,
visited Mandela.

Mandela was completely astonished.
Minister of Justice of the Apartheid

walks into his ward and, you know,
greets him and wants to have a chat.

But Mandela, being able to control his
emotions and not have immediate

reactions, then welcomes Cuivre Cotillo,
though he's a long -lost friend.

You are now really moving towards the
goalposts of the story.

How many leaders have that?

Magnetic. The Africans, they want
political independence.

Only Mandela.

We are fighting for a South Africa which
can only be led by him.

All over the world couldn't rest. We had
to get him out.

They've got no education.

They've only just come down from the
trees.

The alternative is murder.

I will have nothing to do with any
organization that practices violence.

You know that this can never, has never,
and will never be right.

It was a global struggle

against blatant racism and oppression.

Social movement can change the world.

And music can have that political power.

We are here to celebrate Nasser and his
brother.

You must free him, and in freeing him,
you free the people of South Africa.

What turned me on to South Africa was
the song Biko

by Peter Gabriel.

It was so good that I decided to look
into it.

It just went right to my soul.

I need to know exactly what's going on,
you know?

And so I went down there and was really
shocked.

They were teaching as a part of their
religion that black people were not

that they were animals.

They've got no education and it'll take
them a couple of hundred years.

They've only just come down from the
trees.

And then you have 23 million can't vote
because they're black.

This is deep, man. This is deeper than
the kind of racism I was used to.

And I'm down there, and part of the
journey was to go to Sun City and have

fun along the way, you know.

Sun City.

It's a lavish resort where you can relax
and enjoy some of the world's headline

entertainers. It's the showplace of
Opotetswana, one of the so -called

independent homelands.

The South African government had tried
to create an artificial sort of Las

that they called Sun City.

and they were trying to get celebrities
to come perform in Sun City.

It's an enclave. It's not South Africa.
It's independent territory. Come on.

So you weren't supporting this terrible
regime in South Africa by playing Sun

City because it was a different country.

And so I realized, wow, that's the
hustle. Now I got it.

I'm going to use that.

Let's get together and fight for what's
right.

When Mandela started talking to
government officials, then I realized

busy changing now.

First time we take him to the minister's
house, Mandela made a statement to the

minister and said, Sir, while I'm a
prisoner, I can't negotiate with

I can only negotiate with government
when I'm a free man.

Then the minister said immediately to
him, Mr. Mandela, please sit down and

relax. This is not negotiation.

We just have some talk.

That's when Mandela started talking to
government.

Mandela had to negotiate with his
immediate colleague in prison, and then

to negotiate with the ANC in exile.

He needed the tacit support of his
colleagues.

The essence of reaching a political
solution means you sit down with

your enemy, you press your demand, he
presses his, and then you

have to meet.

Each other.

If you're not prepared for that, don't
enter into negotiations.

He was a very pragmatic person because
you can't get your demands met

if you are hostile.

His whole thing was about winning.

Whereas with Oliver Tambo, he was this
forward -looking

strategist.

There were three groupings, basically.

External leadership, led by Oliver
Tumble, the mass democratic movement in

Africa, and then the Robben Island
prisoners.

The important theme was to coordinate
all three.

So we had a constitutional committee of
the ANC set up by Oliver Tumble.

We were working on preparing for a new
constitution for South Africa.

So when the moment of negotiations came,
we'd be ready.

You know, I think that Oliver Tumble
worked very hard

for it. To engage everybody in the world
and let them fight

this because it's not something we can
win alone.

When you have a righteous cause, I mean,
you know, you become dangerous.

The end game was going to be the anti
-apartheid economic legislation.

But we knew Reagan was going to veto.

The post -apartheid South Africa is to
remain the economic locomotive of

Southern Africa.

Its strong and developed economy must
not be crippled.

So, passing legislation, how do we get
there?

Well, just by raising awareness.

We don't want to hear any music.

I wrote the whole Sun City story.

very, very directly.

We wanted to make very clear

that that was a lie and therefore I
ain't gonna play Sun City, you know?

You know, the thing that people
criticize about social movements is

when it's too vague.

What was so great about that song is its
specificity.

It had one thing in mind.

I just love that.

Because people didn't even know what Sun
City was.

This is apolitical. It doesn't matter
what side you're on. It's common sense.

The song and the video had to reflect
what I consider to be an embarrassment.

Music was so important.

It made people who weren't paying
attention pay attention.

We've got to be better storytellers than
the other side. Great pop songs are

propaganda.

We shut down the resort overnight. I
mean, they got completely shut down.

It was amazing how effective it was,
actually.

It became a mainstream issue. The United
States should not be supporting

apartheid. Chase Manhattan Bank, for
example, said we're not going to roll

any more loans to South Africa. That was
a death knell.

The government knew that change was in
the wind, and they couldn't stop it.

President Reagan has fought long and
hard to prevent Congress from imposing

economic sanctions against South Africa.

Today he longed. The Senate joined the
House in overriding Mr. Reagan's veto.

That was a huge victory, man. And that
was only a matter of time before the

dominoes would fall.

It's a bad, miserable attitude from the
father of the United States to apply

sanctions against a developing country,
one of the best developing countries in

Africa. When we were cut off from
international financing, and I was

Finance then, in the thinking in the
National Party, if they start taking

our armaments, then we'll make it
ourselves.

When our oil was being boycotted, we
made our own oil.

But one thing we could not make, and
that was dollars.

We couldn't print our own dollars.

Stock prices in South Africa began to
drop sharply, and the value of the South

African currency, the rand, took a
nosedive. By the middle of last week,

government's racial crisis had become a
financial crisis as well.

We had to suffer that humiliation.

So that was adding more dimension to an
already very difficult

situation.

The level of protest, resistance and
violence, South Africa was like a

cooker. The latest victim of the
necklace died this weekend after the

unrest victims were found in unmarked
coffins. The undertaker's home was burnt

down, a petrol -soaked tire was put
around her neck and set alight. Death by

necklace, reserved for so -called
collaborators.

In a series of speeches in black
townships around Johannesburg, including

Soweto, she again ignored an order which
banned her from speaking in public.

When Winnie Mandela came back to Soweto
from the period of banishment, she was

the face of resistance to apartheid.

I am back with you where I belong.

This is now the right time to take your
country.

Dealing with her was a major headache
for the ANC, and for Mandela in

particular, because she did her own
thing. She was not always a loyal and

obedient comrade of the ANC. She was
very radical in her resistance.

With our necklaces, we shall liberate
this country.

We do not approve of the necklaces.

It gives satisfaction to some people. It
doesn't to the ANC.

Yes, Winnie had become more militant
than my grandfather, justifiably so.

My grandfather was insulated by prison.

We were facing bullets. We were facing
children that were being slaughtered. So

he was at the blood, at the eye of the
storm.

My grandfather wasn't.

Being a revolutionary was...

It was putting yourself totally on the
line for a beautiful world.

Free Nelson Mandela was much more than
just free Nelson Mandela from

Robben Island.

It was free everybody in the world, free
all the oppressed people.

It's the 7th of April, public holiday in
Mozambique.

and I'm going to spend the morning on
the beach, meetings in the afternoon,

I go down to my car.

I

don't

know what's happening. Something
terrible is happening. I'm in total,

total darkness.

Conscious not coming back.

And I'm in...

Total darkness disappearing, reappearing
in consciousness.

I hear a voice saying, Albie, your arm
is in lamentable condition.

You must face the future with courage.

That moment you're waiting for as a
freedom fighter, they come for me. Will

brave? But I get through.

Will it be tonight? Will it be tomorrow?

They come for me. They try to kill me.

And I survived.

I'm being flown to London because South
African security used to follow people

into hospital and give them poison whom
they hadn't managed to kill.

The attack on me, it was like almost...

last attempts of the ultra -ferocious
elements in the security to

show their power, seeing that
negotiations might emerge.

As I'm wheeled out, I see a soldier with
a gun, and I say, no more guns.

No more guns.

We've got to find other ways.

I was totally surprised in some way that
government at least reached out to

Mandela, talked to him, and had
discussions with him. That is what

fights for before he gets to prison in
the 60s.

But nobody wanted to sit down. Only him
was talking at that stage of the half of

the ANC.

There were suspicions that Mandela had
been kind of co -opted and was not

deliberately setting up the movement.

But he'd lost touch with the realities
of today.

I don't believe he would be in a
position to discuss any kind of truth.

How on earth can men who have been out
of the picture for 25 years be expected

to discuss the political situation of
our country behind bars?

He has no mandate to discuss.

Oliver Tambor was the person that Medela
had to keep on board at all costs.

And there was a real relationship of
trust between them. But Tambor was

beginning... to get very concerned and
wrote Mandela a letter in which he made

it very clear that Mandela was not to
cross the line.

There were rocky moments as to whether
Mandela's strategy was going to work.

In the late 80s, the anti -partic
movement had local groups all over the

and thousands and thousands of members.

But the intransigence of the British
government and the US was huge.

There were a number

of different things that happened, like
people calling on local authorities to

name buildings after Nelson Mandela.

The headquarters of the Antipasad
movement moved to Silu Street in Camden,

Camden Council changed the name of that
street to Mandela Street.

Wasn't that wonderful?

But, you know, the British Antipasad
movement, we were quite ambitious. We

wanted a big event around Mandela's 70th
birthday.

In 1985, I worked with and put on Miriam
McCaber.

at the Royal Festival Hall.

Now, I'd like to get the best -known
singer ever to come out of South Africa.

She's also an uncompromising and public
opponent of the regime there. Please

welcome Miriam Makeba.

She challenged me on that occasion quite
explicitly to do something against the

apartheid regime in South Africa.

Mrs. Patu has a view that the sanctions
will not work against South Africa. I

wish she felt that way about Libya.

and all these other countries, but when
it comes to South Africa, then sanctions

won't work.

The songs, the concerts, they were all
individual activities that weren't

reaching very, very large audiences all
at once.

And what our objective was, was to get
the world's broadcasts.

But it was tricky. Under their licence
conditions, they weren't allowed to

support a political cause.

They could report on them, but they
couldn't support them. However justified

may feel your cause is, however unjust
apartheid is, you still run an

organisation that is at least in part a
terrorist organisation that kills

innocent people, is that not so? No, I
reject that most vehemently. And so I

thought of the idea of creating
something called the Nelson Mandela 70th

Birthday Tribute and making it a musical
tribute to the man.

Because music, under the licence
conditions of broadcasters, is not

When the Wembley concert happened, we
approached a really big stadium act, in

particular Simple Minds. This is Simple
Minds.

Clapham Common Concert was already a big
deal, but everyone, after seeing what

Geldof had done with Live Aid, they
thought, we need it on a larger scale.

As the BBC announced that they were a
broadcaster of this, the Conservative

Party tried to take them to court for
breaking their licence conditions. They

weren't allowed to take a political
line.

I remember hearing that it was going to
be called the Nelson Mandela's 70th

birthday concert and thinking, that's
really clever.

Certainly their mandate wasn't to be
broadcasting political concerts.

But you have to sometimes find out how
you get through the water without

wet. If you're a fan of rock music, pop
music at all, the idea behind it is that

the day after the concert, you go out
and check it out for yourself.

There were elements in the Young
Conservatives who were virulently

some of them even had badges and T
-shirts with Hang Mandela.

Yesterday, the South Africans criticised
the BBC's plans to televise a concert

this Saturday, which marks the 70th
birthday of Nelson Mandela, the

leader of the ANC.

At Westminster, 24 Conservative MPs have
added their voice. They've put down a

motion expressing their distaste at the
plan.

There are people wanting reform in South
Africa, but they want peaceful reform.

What simple minds are looking for is
violent reform.

The BBC were tugging on something that
they knew was a political hot potato.

But they had the courage to do that.
There is going to be a rock concert in

London's Wembley Stadium tomorrow that's
billed as bigger than Live Aid.

You know, you have this moment of
interpretation.

How is this thing going to work? Will it
work? This is not going to be like any

other concert.

I remember the song

that we wrote for the event.

It's called Mandela Day.

Our keyboard player at the time, Mick
McNeil, he was setting up a drum

And the first thing he put up, it
sounded like a heartbeat.

And we thought, oh, that's great. A
heartbeat. He's a human.

But when you think of Mandela, I mean,
he was almost a myth.

The last ending.

the anti -apartheid movement was using,
he was still a young man.

So

this

idea of this myth, yeah, he is a myth,
but he's not a myth.

He's a human being.

When it was set free Nelson Mandela, it
was basically set free all the political

prisoners.

We all appreciated that there is this
concerted effort for us to be free.

That not only spoke to us being freed as
prisoners, but it spoke to us being

freed as a country.

They were being drawn into this by just
the sheer weight, if you like, of the

talent that they were going to watch.

But what they then got... Hello,
England! Hello, world!

..was something very different.

They got informed by way of the
presenter telling them who Mandela was

apartheid was. They got that emotional
experience.

I'm recovering in the hospital in
London, so I watched it on TV.

And I heard that song.

Ring, Nelson Mandela.

This is the best possible medicine I
could have had.

The concert at Wembley made you feel
that you were part of a huge

change.

Yeah,

I felt really proud, actually, of what
we'd done as a movement.

And I thought, fuck the Tories.

We've done this.

I

informed

Mandela about a concert which was in the
UK.

Performing for him for his 70th
birthday.

We just sort of said, we just thought to
say happy birthday.

Nothing else.

We just thought to say we

love you.

And we made it.

He was very happy and he was really
enjoying it.

You know, Mandela loves music. He really
loves music.

This broadcast event reached 600 million
people.

600 million people when there are only 5
billion in the world.

Probably 100 countries' broadcasters
across the world broadcasting a tribute

Nelson Mandela when he's in prison
still.

It's sort of... The apartheid government
had lost.

We were aware of it.

It was necessary for all members of the
State Security Council and all members

of Parliament, in fact, to take note of
that and to help think, how do we

respond?

After that concert, everybody wanted to
be Mandela's friend.

There was a gift from Margaret Thatcher,
you know, because they want votes and

they could see how popular the campaign
was.

Our cause...

was now supported by the entire world.

The part of South Africa was completely
isolated.

Nelson Mandela was admitted to Cape
Town's Tigerburg Hospital yesterday.

Since then, he's had tests on his left
lung.

His wife, Winnie, who returned to visit
him today, was shocked by his condition

then. though doctors have said he has
since improved.

There was concern within government that
the clock is ticking, Mandela is 70

years old, he's had health issues.

Within hours of Nelson Mandela's secret
transfer to this comfortable Cape Town

clinic, he was visited in his £40 -a
-day private room by the Minister of

Justice, one of several ministers
favouring his release.

So it all became a little precarious.

He could go at any time and there would
be no replacement.

If we're going to get the understanding
and settlement done, we'd better do it

pretty soon.

If he had died in prison, you know, that
would have been a terrible thing.

Mr Mandela was suddenly moved from a
Cape Town clinic to the grounds of a

prison. He occupies a house said by the
South African government to be

comfortable and secure, but he remains a
prisoner behind barbed wire.

When I reached Victor V, I was very
sorry because I was leaving my

behind.

But after a few weeks, I loved it.

You know, that period, I was visiting
there at least three to four days a

I was there quite a lot of times. We
would take Walter Susulu on one basis to

meet Mandela for the day.

Then later we'd take the whole Rivonia
trial group there to meet him for the

day.

Suddenly, Mandela had control.

He saw a tremendous trail of people,
mainly obviously anti -apartheid people,

trade unionists, politicians.

He was then able to basically see
anybody he wanted.

So at the height of the movement to free
Mandela, both domestically and

internationally, at this point, a bomb
literally explodes.

According to police, the decomposed body
of Stompy McKenzie was found on an open

space of land in Soweto after an
anonymous telephone call.

We hear that something has gone badly
wrong with Winnie Mandela.

So when she came back to Soweto, she
formed this thing called the Mandela

Football Club, which was basically a
bunch of former convicts and various

sort of cobbled together.

And the football club were, if you like,

Her bodyguards, basically.

The story is that a young activist,
Stomping McKenzie, has died as a result

being assaulted by the football club,
and Winnie Mandela was present.

For the first time, graffiti on the
streets of Johannesburg attacking Winnie

Mandela. A public fall from grace,
providing perfect propaganda for her

Things really got out of hand by that
time.

I called and I told him I was just in
the news.

He was silent.

That it could even be dreamt that I
would be responsible for the murder

of a child when I have spent all my life
fighting against

these injustices appalls me.

Clearly things had gone very badly wrong
with the football club.

Mrs. Mandela arrived in Cape Town this
morning and left immediately for the

Victor Bastet prison where her husband
Nelson is being held.

That was a crucial moment.

That was the moment in which the whole
thing could have exploded completely.

Willie was under intense investigation
and it would take a couple of years to

get to the bottom of the whole story.

Mrs. Mandela has refused to discuss her
conversation with her husband, but he's

known to have been deeply concerned by
the so -called football club, which has

done little to honour his name.

It was the worst time of her life at her
lowest.

And of course, even poor Nurse Mandela
tried but could not do much.

A part eight ultimately came out in its
worst form.

The worst side of Winnie Mandela.

Oh, it was the saddest thing of his life
because he loved his wife.

He loved Winnie.

And in the end, that marriage broke
down.

The Iron Curtain.

It's being torn down, the Berlin Wall,
brick by brick, pushed over.

The world was more malleable than people
had told you.

This could never happen, but it was
happening.

And it just felt like a moment where
everything's possible.

The global west was now calling for the
end of apartheid to come ASAP, and there

was no more time left.

The President of South Africa, P .W.
Borta, has resigned as leader of the

National Party. Mr. Borta, who's 73,
suffered a stroke two weeks ago. The

Education Minister, F .W. de Klerk, will
take over as party leader.

We are in contact with the ANC at the
moment with regard to the possibility of

meeting. It has become politically
imperative to release him and to have

participate.

F .W. de Klerk had only one significant
meeting with Mandela, and Mandela did

not want to be released on Pretoria
terms.

He wanted to be released on his terms.

He wanted to be released when his
colleagues were all out of prison and

to prepare the ground for his release.

It never dawned on me that he would be
one day released.

He invited all of us. We had lunch at
the town.

And he told us, we will be released.
They were like music to my ears.

I wish to put it plain that the
government has taken a firm decision to

Mr. Mandela unconditionally.

You know, without our identity, we sit
with this.

And for him, his identity, no one was
ever going to take his identity.

Not apartheid, not imprisonment, not
anything.

I have fought against white domination
and I have fought

against black domination.

I have cherished the ideal of a
democratic and free society

in which all persons lived together in
harmony.

It is an idea for which I hope to live
for.

But my love, if it needs being, it is an
idea for which I am prepared

to die.

This is Victor versus the prison outside
Cape Town on the 11th of February 1990.

In a few moments, Nelson Mandela is due
to walk away from here after 27 years of

incarceration in South African jail.

There's Mr. Mandela, Mr. Nelson Mandela,
a free man taking his first steps

into a new South Africa.

they finally walked out and it it was it
was really real

tens

perhaps hundreds of thousands of south
africans gathered in the center of cape

town to welcome the leader whose
prestige has never been higher

I must confess I'm unable to describe my
emotions.

I was completely overwhelmed by the
enthusiasm.

I have lost a great deal over these 27
years.

Despite the hard times that we've had in
prison, there have been men, you know,

who are very good in the sense that they
understand our point of view.

and they do everything to try and make
you as happy as possible.

And that has wiped out any bitterness
which a man could have.

When I think of myself during that time,
I was so happy to see him happy.

I was so happy to be part of the parcel,
to see him as a free man.

I was part of the advance.

that organized these first tours out

of this world.

After all the years of exile and all the
suffering and everything,

it was such a validation.

People just... But it was because of
Oliver Campbell's anti

-apartheid. movement that he organized.

He is the architect of all of that.

When I was released, I made it a point
that I was going to visit him because he

is the one man who has been able to keep
the organization together for the last

three decades.

Ten months after the Nelson Mandela's
70th birthday tribute, Mandela sends his

lawyer, Ishmael Ale,

to be me in London to say, would I do a
second global broadcast event?

They wished to give him a global
platform as soon after he's released as

possible.

And within 54 days of his release, we
had the second global broadcast event.

54 days later, he was with us.

that you chose to care.

When you worked with him closely, there
was always a

kind of deep sadness.

It was the pain of... He carried the

pain of oppression.

Very personally.

There was always, for me, the picture of
this man who

had given his life to the people of
South Africa.

You take my life away.

The faster I will run.

You can deny me. You can decide to turn

your face away.

No matter.

When he was released, I thought, you
know, I'm going to have him to myself.

going to have coffee, we go to movies.

That was shattered because he suddenly
became the grandfather of the entire

world, let alone South Africa.

When the choice was made to him, who he
would choose between country and family,

It shows country every time.

I was resentful.

One feels we cannot really express what
we feel for one another, you know,

because part of ourselves remains behind
bars.

... ... ... ...

For me, it was almost like the very deep
prayer

that had brought through the ages to say
this is where we come from.

And the road and the path that we have
travelled has always been thorny, but we

have to keep on soldiering on. That's
what Nkosi Sigelela was.

We did bring down apartheid. We did
achieve our basic aims to destroy that

system of complete denial of self
-determination to African people. We

have a huge way to go and lots of things
are absolutely intolerable.

But that main project of the Mandela
-Tambor generation has been achieved,

giving people rights and the rights to
bring about changes so that everybody

truly feels South Africa belongs to all
who live in it.

The time for the healing of the wounds
has come.

The moment to preach the cause that
divides us has come.

The time to give.

It made me feel guilty to get to know
this extraordinary man.

I said to him one day, I'm a
representative of the people who kept

incarcerated and yet you treated me with
the utmost courtesy and respect.

And I want to tell you that I believe
you are a God -gifted person to be so

tolerant.

We feel embarrassed that that should
have been done to him. We didn't

his wishes for his people properly.

If we don't forgive them, then that
feeling of bitterness and

revenge will be there.

And we are saying, let's concern
ourselves with the present and the

to say...

The atrocities of the past will never be
allowed to happen again.

As long as our people were oppressed, it
was my duty to be involved.

If I had to live again, I would do the
very same thing.