A chance meeting with Mandela

Dec 10, 2013, 06:23 PM

Nelson Mandela had been released from prison, after 27 gruelling years, only seven months earlier, and South Africa was still teeming with journalists, each of whom was anxious to secure an exclusive interview with the world's most famous ex- political prisoner. One of them was Ghanaian journalist Cameron Duodu who by chance found himself face to face with the great man in the waiting lounge of Johannesburg International Airport.... He told Focus on Africa what happened next