<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela" id="mwAUI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Nelson Mandela">Nelson Mandela</a> is released from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drakenstein_Correctional_Centre" id="mwAUM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Drakenstein Correctional Centre">Victor Verster Prison</a> outside <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Town" id="mwAUQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Cape Town">Cape Town</a>, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner.<sup about="#mwt225" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-43"}}' id="cite_ref-43" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_11#cite_note-43" id="mwAUU" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 43;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAUY">[43]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-43"><cite about="#mwt222" class="citation web cs1" id="CITEREFBeresford2013">Beresford, David (6 December 2013). <a class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2013/dec/06/1990-nelson-mandela-victor-verster-prison" id="mwCbA" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"From the archive, 12 February 1990: Nelson Mandela: A man whose time has come at last"</a>. <i id="mwCbE">The Guardian</i><span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwCbI">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwCbM">24 February</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt222" class="Z3988" id="mwCbQ" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&amp;rft.atitle=From+the+archive%2C+12+February+1990%3A+Nelson+Mandela%3A+A+man+whose+time+has+come+at+last&amp;rft.date=2013-12-06&amp;rft.aulast=Beresford&amp;rft.aufirst=David&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Ftheguardian%2F2013%2Fdec%2F06%2F1990-nelson-mandela-victor-verster-prison&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFebruary+11"></span></span>