BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: First, a look back, 10 years to the day, Nelson Mandela walked out of prison.</s>F.W. DE CLERK, SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT: I am now in a position to announce that Mr. Nelson Mandela will be released at the...</s>GARY STREIKER, INTL. CORRESPONDENT: Most whites in the country felt that the time had come for a change and that something had to be done to pull South Africa out of this time warp that it was in. But there was a significant minority of whites in the country who thought that de Klerk and his people were fools, that they were traitors. I don't think many black South Africans ever felt that they would ever see Nelson Mandela alive out of prison, and here it happened.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's Mr. Mandela, Mr. Nelson Mandela, a free man taking his first steps into a new South Africa.</s>STREIKER: Everywhere you went in South Africa you'd see on the faces of black South Africans these beaming smiles.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm very pleased that Mandela is coming. Mandela is the freedom of the new South Africa.</s>STREIKER: Mandela served his presidency and retired. Thabo Mbeki is now president. He's assumed the responsibility for doing the kinds of things that Nelson Mandela did while he was president.
CNN 20: Nelson Mandela Prison Release, February 11, 1990