Jon Snow
Mandela's walk to freedom – I was there
On the 20th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in South Africa, Jon Snow remembers being there as he began his walk to freedom.
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Twenty years after Mandela's release, what has changed?
Twenty years on from Nelson Mandela’s walk to freedom, Jonathan Miller looks at the difference between the hope and the reality in South Africa.
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Jon Snow
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Jon Snow
Finally interviewing Brazilian President Lula da Silva
I am standing on a balcony sixteen floors above the Amazon leaning on the railing talking with Brazil’s President Lula. An exceptional life story has taken him from a 12-year-old shoeshine boy, via work at a sheet metal factory where he lost the little finger of his left hand in an industrial accident, to his…
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Meeting Mandela – from freedom to anniversary
Channel 4 News presenter, Jon Snow, writes on the day he witnessed Nelson Mandela walking to freedom to his thoughts 20 years later.
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Jon Snow
1989-2009: interviewing Nelson Mandela
People often ask who I have most enjoyed interviewing. I am still in no doubt that talking to Nelson Mandela in 1994, before he even became president of South Africa, was that. The amazing thing was that, if anything, he seemed more interested in me than even I was in him. He made eye contact.…
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Jon Snow
24 April 1989: big hair, shabby tie, posh
Today I shall have completed 20 years presenting Channel 4 News – there’s one crazy thought for you. It’s amazing to think: Thatcher was still on the throne, the Berlin Wall was tottering but still standing, Mandela was still in jail, and Britain wasn’t bankrupt. What’s more, Brighton & Hove Albion weren’t quite as perilously…
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‘Beacon of hope’ Mandela’s statue
Nelson Mandela attends the unveiling of a statue in his honour outside the Houses of Parliament in London.
