Video: 'Mandela walking out of prison with Winnie'

(Sunday, February 11, 1990, 4:15 p.m. South Africa Standard Time) — Nelson Mandela, leader of the movement to end South African apartheid, walked out of Victor Verster Prison near Paarl today with his wife, Winnie, after serving more than 27 years.

Video: 'Nelson Mandela Released Feb 11, 1990'

Driven to Cape Town’s City Hall through crowds, Mandela gave a speech urging his supporters at home and abroad to increase their pressure against the white minority government that had just released him.

“We have waited too long for our freedom,” Mandela told a cheering crowd from a balcony of Cape Town’s old City Hall. “We can wait no longer.”