Four Corners
A Black Future
TV-PG
1990 • E14 May 21, 1990 45mNelson Mandela, three months after being freed, is not picking at old wounds. Journalist Deborah Snow, who spent about an hour interviewing Mandela, and three weeks in South Africa making this program, explains: "Ask him if he resents being robbed of 27 years of his life and he says, I'm not really bitter about it in some ways it was an enriching experience." But Mandela does not want to talk about himself.