The World - News from Feb. 23, 1986
Black nationalist Nelson Mandela does not expect South Africa to free him from prison in the coming weeks or months and wants speculation on the matter to stop, his daughter said. The daughter, Zindzi Mandela, and Mandela’s wife, Winnie, visited the African National Congress leader in prison at Cape Town, where he has served 23 years of a life sentence for plotting sabotage. Persistent rumors have lately suggested that the white minority regime is about to release Mandela, but Zindzi Mandela said, “There is nothing new.” She added that her father asked for an end to guesses about his freedom.
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