Nelson Mandela's first TV interview in 1961 by ITN reporter Brian Widlake
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- In 1961 ITN reporter Brian Widlake met Nelson Mandela, while he was in hiding, to conduct the former president's first ever TV interview. The 42-year-old was on the run from the police at the time, and Widlake had to pull some strings to arrange to meet him in his hideout, with the interview part of a longer ITN Roving Report programme about apartheid.
The following year Mandela was arrested on allegations of sabotage and other charges and sentenced to life in prison, where he spent 27 years before finally being freed. Report by Andrea Lilly.
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He will never be forgotten
It’s so messed up that this brilliant man was viewed as a dangerous criminal. All he wanted was freedom and full autonomy for the lives of his people. It’s a crying shame that he was jailed.
That’s British 🤷🏽♂️
It was legalised immorality, just because something is legal doesn't mean it's just or moral.
Need to go do some research my buddy. Bombed malls and banks full of women and children. The modern term this is terrorism
Such is the case with all those who choose to engage in defensive violence against oppression when all nonviolent methods have been exhausted. The oppressor will say anything to prevent the overthrow of their systems.
@@kabilanreally? Wasn’t it South African police and justice system that deemed him a criminal?
We dug through our archives to bring you this amazing video. Nelson Mandela gave ITN his very first TV interview back in 1961, three years before he was jailed. See what he had to say while he was in hiding, and tell us what you think! This is definitely one to share.
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Uhm, Hudson Child - really??
Can you keep on digging and give us Sobukwe's interviews the nation would love to here the voice of our father of south african pan africanists
What an incredible interview.
Born in a royal family he could have led his own life... But this great man has led his whole life for the people of Africa 🙏
He lived his life for the people of South Africa not Africa
NO he stood for South Africa people,Not Africa. Tell me what he did for Africa
@@monicanundwe2459 comment was purely about his work and the life he had lived. Not to whom. I will though surely edit and add SOUTH 👍
He was killed in prison.
Legend❤️
This is the real mandela
What the hell are you saying 😂
Yes not the Gibson Makanda who ended being a freemason
Your mad what the hell are you saying
@@fennygypsyforward proof.
Nowadays I feel this world is missing personalities like Nelson Mandela , rest in peace.
We need the whole interview man.
Nelson Mandela at his best
there are many people who feel it is useless and futile for us to continue talking peace and non violence,against a government whos only response is savage attacks agains unarmed and defenseless people
Nduduzo Mngomezulu profound ✊🏿
Never seen Mandela this young
Born in 1918 . He was 41 in this interview not young at all
@@tebogomaphephe3470 well that’s only 18 years older than me so that’s pretty young.
So that’s the interview that blew his cover,this fellow must have gone straight to the authorities with the tape 😢
I think so too💔💔💔
Disagree that nonviolence isn't the tactic that should always be employed...
I disagree
Why?
I respect this man...
He's a thug!
@@respectamerica2382 He's the catalyst to the Apartheid State, a bunch of racist thugs.
@@respectamerica2382how so?
The most articulate, moral and admirable Leader of ALL time ❤❤❤
I wish he was still here with us 😢😢
So unlike the immoral zombies of the west!!!
The real Mandela.
POWERFUL MESSAGE , HE CAME BACK A CHANGED MAN AFTER PRISON
Remember he passed away in 1967
Well respected, Leader of our lifetime. We salute you Tata,
Wish you were here😢😢😢
This is The Mandela 😞
Not the one that came out
Indeed God has brought to us a Great man on Earth
What an amazing man.
Great interview, reminds me of our Brilliant Father Zimbabwe Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo who also had a similar interview fighting the colonialist head on!
"By any means necessary" Malcolm X
The man, the legend and the myth. An epitome of everything leadership.
Real Nelson Mandela of Southern Africa
The woman's voiceover ruins this (almost)!
Blessed man r.i.p Mr madela
Father of the Nation
The question of education has nothing to do with the question of votes 😂😂😂 ..madiba
❤️❤️❤️
He spent 18 years on the island
At least we were privileged to witness History in SA
THANK YOU MADIBA
Being "All about peace" gained him a presidency of a new nation.
If he had used Taliban methods he would be where the Taliban is today.
Being feared is pointless and unsustainable.
Feared people are hunted by the fearless.
There is no benefit in being feared, only inevitable loss
wise words
But peace cost him and millions of Africans 30 years of suffering after this interview. Listen to the condescending talk of this interviewer. These whites felt invincible and were proud. Backed by the USA and UK, the phony minority government helped the West get rich off millions of poor black labour.
This did not age well🤣
If this is the real Mandela speaking, then the one released was not Mandela, never!
@@SeanAbbey Go back to primary and learn "if clause" stop trading ignorance. Did u even understand my statement or u re jst ready to vomit here!
This man died in 1967.
This is Gibson Makanda this people knows very well what they did to our legend Mandela, but from a distance God is watching them 😢
Correction first President!
Ok now I see and understand
It's crazy that olden day English sounds so, well, old. Even the African sounds olden day English.
It's not African. It's Canaanite.
They totally do. I used to get marvelled by English accent of my African black grandparents who lived in South Africa their whole lives.
Black but not born in Africa. It's weird to hear a white man ask if Africans can develop and govern their country without Europeans as if they weren't doing that before they came. Like huh?
I'd never forgive anyone for falsely imprisonment of my physical body.
As much as that is done to innocent men ... THEY cannot enslave my mind.
Peace. ❤
And he died in 1985!
Nelson Mandela, Muhammad Ali, Pele and Barack Obama , 4 ,men who changed the world
Obama? That war criminal?😂
Lets take out obama swap with malcom x
Obama was only voted in cause he was black, ask most blacks why they voted for him.
Obama?😂
The young with very round face and narrow lips is original mandela. This old man with v shape face and wide lips is a copy of mandela
Very true.
They are two people because of the more than 25 years gap.
The young and the old.
Viva Mandela Viva Madiba
He looks younger
The Gran Turismo 6 demo is out today :D Just thought i'd let you all know...
Great interview! Thank you! July 18 marks the Nelson Mandela Day celebrating Nelson Mandela's legacy with a global call to take #ActionAgainstPoverty. We dedicate this music th-cam.com/video/xGQDTxkm9WY/w-d-xo.html to this great man who spent 27 years in jail for fighting against racial segregation. Let’s make every day a #MandelaDay. ❤
I HOPE HE GETS BETTER FOR HIS 95TH BIRTHDAY ON 18TH JULY, 9 DAYS TIME.
No sound
This was the real mandela extremely different from that imposter
He sounds different
He was still young and energetic but voice is still the same only deeper as he grew older.
He asked some stupid questions 🙄
And some questions were very condescending. But, white people will "white"...
Never forget Evil always wanna prove a point but God always Prevail.
Mandela went to jail when he was 46 years old. He was released at the age of 72 in February and in July he would be 73. Any who expects the 46 year to look like the 72-73 year ol d Mandela is surely not thinking properly.
The young Mandela and the old Mandela doesn't look alike
Not the same man
My leader
Patria o Muerte, he did his best . We failed him as South Africans referring to the ANC. SA would have been worse than the Rwanda genocide if we did not have a smart man like Nelson Mandela to do this transition trust me - both sides would have bleed severely-.
Haai man this is not Mandela man😢
ahhh!! Dalinbhunga
Grandpa M❤
I didn't know Mandela was half Chinese...
He is half Nguni half khoi khoi like many Nguni thembu xhosas mixed tribes they hv small eyes bcos khoi khoi got small eyes like Asians
Loll no he isnt you crazy its nature his eyes, he is native african.
🤣
it is a pity that Mandela didn't do what the Taliban is doing to it's enemy. He was all about peace and that didn't do much to prevent all the racial insults he is getting from one his last days alive.
it is better to be feared than to be loved in this divided world.
you are very dark. Get some ice cream
You fool!
Hate will only lead to more hate. He saved his country by forgiving his enemies and preventing civil war.
One kinda people
Oppressing
One kinda people
One kinda people
Come back and teach
One kinda people
How to be free
! ! !
0:23
so what is his speciality? Mandela is everyone everywhere in their heart.
Reporter asked him African can do that? well
I should say the same question to people who had colonialism. ,Did you guy do really nice to people? Are you sure?
then I will ask again When do you satisfy? Now? or For future after suck economy?
then I will ask again Right education now? Higher education than his mind? Well well well then Why did you ask him. I will ask you can you handle it. maybe not.
Emotional into politics in umanbeng when it get in the mindset vary difficult it even creat deeth. In lage number lost life butelezi was leader in sauthafrica crush black people because of umanbeng sense in mindset it creat deeth and Nelson Mandela become leader umanbeng Emotional is vsry different because on more problems creat more thinking ways of solving problems by wich way gun or through talking
Umanbeng is unpredictable behaviour
What's that in his head....lool
It is his cultural materials Xhosa in South Africa wears those things in their heads
Ngu nyoko
Something
@@kingsaya23 😂😂😂😂 #dead
The White man sees himself as a god !
Iron Maiden's song ""Run to the hills" sums up the White mans thinking . I am white myself , the more I got older the more I see how entitled some white men are and how they think they are superior , and it disgusts me no end
The White man's God a God complex.
The hairline totally gives it away.. The old man was Gibson Makanda(The imposter) . The young man on this video is the real mandela... Lies were celebrated and held up high.. He a mason
Ur rude!
NKOSI JESU YABULAWA INGANE YOMFAZI MAQEDE KWALETHWA ISIGEBENGU KWATHIWA UMANDELA NGISHO LESI ESAPHUMA NGO FEBRUARY 1990
2:53
And a white man never lie...
So-called white man always lie!
the guy below me has no life lmao i see him everytume i go to this channels comment section
He keeps repeating that white people are welcome lol😅
So many people who are still living in a dark after soo many year Mandela give the white people want did they want as a black people ....Wanga umphefumlo wakho ungaba uphumle ngoxolo naphakada Tata umadiba aahhhhhh dalibunga
....only political freedom...?
😲😲😲
Doucoure
Mandala looks part Asian, interesting eyes.
Darla Owens you mean Asians looks part African. Africans have been all over this world long before others who occupy the lands
Tribal his they were procreating amongst their own tribe
Khoisan 😂❤🎉
Madeba
Mandela was a guerillero, he 2as not a peaceful man.
Did you not listen to the flippen interview mate!
what do you expect he is an afrikaaner
Peaceful protest led to African people being massacred. The apartheid regime was not interested in talking back then, only brutality. Many people felt like they had no choice.
VIVA lA Israel...
And the Rest peace to you 😅😅😅
sza
This Mandela go in jail like boxing when is come out like Golf Mxm not realy Mandela this one
Yabona ayikalungi lento abelungu bengakasho ukuthi uNelson Mandela lona okhuluma lapha bamshonisaphi ayinginiki ukuthula emoyeni wami lena
They,The White's didn't plan to kill him,,are you on some sort of "Taxi sniff" 😅😅😅