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Things Tue March 13, 2012 Saving Nelson Mandela When law
professor Kenneth Broun began learning about the 1963 trial of
Nelson Mandela, he was startled to discover the South African
leader was expected to be put to death. Mandela spent 27 years
in prison, but he eventually got out and became president.
Still, Broun wondered what would have happened if the celebrated
leader had been killed. He set about researching the trial that
led to Mandela's imprisonment. Host Frank Stasio talks to
Kenneth Broun, professor at the University of Chapel Hill, about
his new book, "Saving Nelson Mandela: The Rivonia Trial and the
Fate of South Africa" (Oxford