A jubilant Sowetan holds up a newspaper announcing the release of anti-apartheid leader and ANC member Nelson Mandela at a mass ANC rally on February 11 1990. At the opening of Parliament on February 2, South Africa’s then president FW de Klerk lifted the 30-year-old ban on the ANC and the SA Communist Party. And, on February 11, Mandela walked out of Victor Verster prison, near Cape Town, 27 years after he had been sentenced to life imprisonment. Picture: FP