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Episode 5: Have You Heard From Johannesburg

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Episode 5: Have You Heard From Johannesburg

Season 13 Episode 12 | 54m 36s | CC

The apartheid regime in Pretoria crumbles under pressure from a united popular uprising inside its borders, and crushing international pressure to reform. Nelson Mandela is freed from prison and in 1990 is elected president of a democratic South Africa.

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