http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article7017130.ece
Nelson Mandela will return next week to the prison from which he walked free after 27 years behind bars for fighting the apartheid regime.
The former President, now a frail 91 years old, will mark the twentieth anniversary next Thursday of the day that he left Victor Verster prison, renamed Groot Drakenstein, and took the first steps to his election four years later with a re-enactment of that iconic event.
Yesterday Fikile Mbalula, the Deputy Police Minister, announced Mr Mandela’s participation, putting an end to speculation that he was in such poor health that he was in no condition to travel.
Mr Mandela’s former wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, who walked out with him to freedom on February 11, 1990, will lead a 500-yard symbolic march along the same route.
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