Blog posts tagged "Nelson Mandela"

February 11, 2010 8:46 am 17 Comments

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.

November 30, 2009 11:00 am 59 Comments

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 [...]

April 24, 2009 11:39 am No Comments

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. [...]

10:35 am No Comments

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 [...]