Nelson Mandela · every age
What was Nelson Mandela doing at 70?
27 years in prison, then president at 75
- Dec 1988
Moved to a house at Victor Verster Prison after tuberculosis
A warder's cottage with a cook and a pool, where he could receive visitors.
Source: en.wikipedia.org - Jul 1989
Tea with President P. W. Botha at Tuynhuys
Their first meeting. Botha resigned a month later; de Klerk took over.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Others at 70
Portrait: Photo: South Africa The Good News (2008), CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons · source
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