What is thought to be the first TV interview with the anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela has been discovered, the Nelson Mandela Foundation says.
The clip lasts just 24 seconds and the Foundation says it was filmed by a Dutch broadcaster during a break in Mr Mandela’s treason trial.
That began in 1956 and ended in March 1961, when he was acquitted along with 27 others.
The interview was broadcast in January 1961 as part of a programme about apartheid.
In the clip he says:
” From the very beginning, the African National Congress set itself the task of fighting against white supremacy.”
” We have always regarded as wrong for one racial group to dominate another racial group.”
” And from the very beginning the African National Congress has fought, without hesitation, against all forms of racial discrimination and we shall continue to do so until freedom is achieved.”
- BBC Africa
