Nelson Mandela insisted that he wanted to walk out of prison, when then President F. W. de Klerk told him he would finally be freed 25 years ago.
On Wednesday, South Africans marked the anniversary of the release of Mandela who four years later became the country’s first black president.
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Mandela, who died in 2013 at the age of 95, would have been proud of South Africa’s achievements, but would have been disturbed by the continued instances of racism, said the last apartheid president F.W. de Klerk, marking the anniversary.
