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Please note: Because this is an original television broadcast, some third-party archive footage was only licensed for its original airing. We have blurred these specific segments to comply with global streaming rights and legally bring this documentary to YouTube.
To mark what would have been Nelson Mandela's 100th birthday in 2018, Sir Trevor McDonald is back in the country where he conducted one of television's most historic interviews. Nearly three decades after they met in the immediate aftermath of Mandela's release, Trevor returns to explore South Africa - hearing the stories of very different people who sum up a nation changed beyond all recognition since his first reports from the country in the mid-1980s - today a very different nation no doubt, but is it still a land of division and extremes? What has become of the Rainbow Nation?
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This film was first broadcast: 19 Jun 2018
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Please note: Because this is an original television broadcast, some third-party archive footage was only licensed for its original airing. We have blurred these specific segments to comply with global streaming rights and legally bring this documentary to YouTube.
To mark what would have been Nelson Mandela's 100th birthday in 2018, Sir Trevor McDonald is back in the country where he conducted one of television's most historic interviews. Nearly three decades after they met in the immediate aftermath of Mandela's release, Trevor returns to explore South Africa - hearing the stories of very different people who sum up a nation changed beyond all recognition since his first reports from the country in the mid-1980s - today a very different nation no doubt, but is it still a land of division and extremes? What has become of the Rainbow Nation?
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This film was first broadcast: 19 Jun 2018
Check us out on Facebook: facebook.com/OurStoriesChannel
Watch More Documentaries
True Lives - bit.ly/3A8xRMJ
Up Close - youtube.com/@UpCloseITVS
Our History - bit.ly/3rUpdhL
Our World - bit.ly/3ftuckM
Our Stories - bit.ly/3ynfFyk
Taste - bit.ly/3OZoDcV
Blueprint - bit.ly/3ZK5UdD
True Lives brings you fascinating stories of social interest from around the world. You can discover award winning documentaries, films and groundbreaking reports that capture the complexities of our daily life, with stories that will entertain, inspire and inform.
Content distributed by ITV Studios.
