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Richard Stengel on Mandela: The Lost Tapes

We the People

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Mandela's Transition From Autocracy to Democracy

Mandela's release from prison in 1990, after five years of negotiation, he becomes the first democratically elected president of South Africa. Mandela was running for office at the same time trying to prevent a civil war and then doing a bunch of other things that he didn't need to do like working on his autobiography with me. He felt that was necessary to get the white buy-in to this new democratic republic which never had existed before.

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