MANDELA VISITS HOUSE AT VICTOR VERSTER PRISON & MEETS HIS WARDEN TELLS A LOT OF FUNNY STORIES MANDELA RECEIVES FREEDOM OF PAARL

Record ID: 893668

  • Title: MANDELA VISITS HOUSE AT VICTOR VERSTER PRISON & MEETS HIS WARDEN TELLS A LOT OF FUNNY STORIES MANDELA RECEIVES FREEDOM OF PAARL
  • Date: 29th October 1996
  • Summary: MANDELA VISITS HOUSE AT VICTOR VERSTER PRISON & MEETS HIS WARDEN TELLS A LOT OF FUNNY STORIES MANDELA RECEIVES FREEDOM OF PAARL
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  • City: PAARL
  • Country: South Africa
  • Reuters ID: 96OCT29R02
  • Story Text:MANDELA VISITING THE HOUSE AT VICTOR VERSTER PRISON & MEETING HIS OLD WARDEN AGAIN

    00.00.32 MANDELA ARRIVAL AT COMMUNITY CENTRE
    00.00.50 POLICE PRESENCE
    00.01.06 MANDELA SHAKING HANDS WITH PUBLIC
    00.02.20 GATES OF VICTOR VERSTER PRISON
    00.02.55 HOUSE MANDELA WAS KEPT IN
    00.04.44 INTERVIEW: STEVEN GRABIE [PROVINCIAL COMMISSIONER OF THE WESTERN CAPE DEPT CORRECTIONAL SERVICES] How does it feel for you to have the world's most famous ex-convict coming back to visit? Naturally we're very proud to have him here and there's a jubilant feeling here at Victor Verster...coming back to visit the place where he was kept as a prisoner...
    00.05.53 ARRIVAL MANDELA
    00.06.49 MANDELA WALKING TO HOUSE
    00.07.11 MANDELA COMMENTING:...I became a birdwatcher...
    00.07.40 COMMENTING THAT BUILT A REPLICA OF HOUSE IN HIS VILLAGE
    00.07.53 ...I spent some of the best moments here. Although it was tragic for one to spent so many years in prison, but it was here that the negotiations between the ANC & the government intensified...
    00.08.24 ...it was difficult to keep the negotiations quiet in Pollsmoor; it was decided that I should be moved here because prisoners are very shrewed...
    00.09.41 EXPLAINS THAT KOBIE COETZEE SAID THAT WALL MUST BE BUILT SO THAT HE CAN MOVE AROUND WITHOUT BEING SEEN
    00.09.52 ...there were very interesting incidents...re: TELLS STORY OF GETTING PROPERLY DRESSED TO GO AND SEE PW BOTHA AND HOW THEY GOT FOLLOWED BY PRESS
    00.13.57 WIDE MANDELA SURROUNDED BY PRESS
    00.14.20 MANDELA GOING INTO HOUSE
    00.15.35 TELLING SOME MORE STORIES
    00.16.36 STORY OF THE WARDENS WALKING BEHIND HIM AND HE INSISTED THAT THEY MUST WALK AHEAD BECAUSE WHITES CAN'T BE FOLLOWING A BLACK MAN ...they said, Mandela if you insist we take you back to jail... [PRESS FUNNIES]
    00.18.25 CUTAWAYS PRESS
    00.19.41 ...I've never heard of anything called dry wine; wine is always wet...
    00.20.28 TELLING STORY ABOUT MARIUS THE WARDEN WHO COOKED FOR MANDELA...they used the dry wine but I liked my sweet wine...he said, Mandela you must be civilized...nobody drinks sweet wine here...
    00.21.08 MANDELA GREETING MARIUS
    00.22.55 ...so I solved that question of the ghost that day..
    00.24.19 MANDELA & MARIUS SHAKING HANDS OUTSIDE HOUSE AGAIN
    00.24.53 STANDING AT THE SWIMMING POOL
    00.26.15 MANDELA GETTING BACK INTO CAR

    MANDELA RECEIVES FREEDOM OF PAARL:
    00.26.25 WIDE OF STDIUM
    00.26.47 MANDELA WAVING AT CROWDS
    00.27.23 WALKING UP STEPS TO PODIUM
    00.28.12 VARIOUS CROWDS
    00.29.14 MAYOR HANDING OVER TO MANDELA
    00.30.00 MANDELA SPEECH [AFRIKAANS]
    00.33.37 ...there must be sustained economic growth and development if we are to reduce the level of crime to a minimum. Government has set up a macro economic framework for business labour and government to work together for faster growth. This will create more jobs and it will produce the resources for reconstruction and devlopment. Your challenge is to make sure that these 3 partners join hands to make Paarl flourish.
    00.34.20 ...we have given you all the opportunity to go to school...this year Grade we have added also compulsary and free.
    00.34.44 SCHOOL CHIOR
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