Old Newscast: Nelson Mandela Is Released From Prison, 1990 (Part 2)
Newscast
BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Over the summer holidays, we’ve brought back Old Newscast - where we pick big news days in history and look at what happened and the consequences. In this episode, that day is 11 February, when Nelson Mandela was released from prison after 27 years. Former Southern Africa correspondent Fergal Keane joins, with his former producer and BBC Africa bureaux editor Milton Nkosi. Listen to yesterday’s episode to hear the details of the day itself. You can now listen to Newscast on a smart speaker. If you want to listen, just say "Ask BBC Sounds to play Newscast”. It works on most smart speakers. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Get in touch with Newscast by emailing [email protected] or send us a whatsapp on +44 0330 123 9480. New episodes released every day. If you're in the UK, for more News and Current Affairs podcasts from the BBC, listen on BBC Sounds: https://bit.ly/3ENLcS1 Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Chris Flynn with Lucy Gape. The technical producer was Dafydd Evans. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:21.7 | Hello, welcome to the second half of our old newscasts looking at the release of Nelson Mandela from prison in South Africa after 27 years, which happened on the 11th of February 1990. |
| 0:34.6 | And we are looking at that moment and the moments that came after it with Fergal Keen, |
| 0:39.9 | who would become the BBC's Southern Africa correspondent and Milton Enkosi, Fergels producer, |
| 0:45.9 | but would then go on to become the Bureau Chief for the BBC's operations in Africa. |
| 0:52.3 | Now, we've talked about Nelson Mandela's release and that moment of hope |
| 0:56.9 | that that represented, but they then followed some moments of violence, threat, death, and so just to |
| 1:05.6 | make you aware that we will talk about some of that in this next episode of old newscast. |
| 1:10.8 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:13.1 | After 27 years in South African jails, Nelson Mandela is a free man. |
| 1:18.5 | Thousands of South Africans black and white pinning their hopes on a hero. |
| 1:22.9 | I greet you all in the name of peace. |
| 1:26.0 | Your freedom and mind cannot be saturated. On this day, I became a human |
| 1:31.0 | being. I therefore place the remaining years of my life in your head. Hello, it's Adam in the old |
| 1:41.7 | newscast studio and joining us down the line is Milton in Kosi. Hello again, Milton. Hello, Adam's Adam in the old newscast studio, and joining us down the line is Milton in Cozy. |
| 1:46.0 | Hello, Milton. |
| 1:46.8 | Hello, Adam. |
| 1:47.7 | And still here in the studio is Fergal Keen. Hello, Fargo. |
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