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On this day — October 27

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Date Country Person Title
18 July 1988 South Africa Nelson Mandela Mandela turns 70 as the government restricts public commemorations
24 February 1988 South Africa Nelson Mandela The government bans the United Democratic Front and other organisations
5 November 1987 South Africa Nelson Mandela Govan Mbeki is released from Robben Island
26 December 1986 South Africa Nelson Mandela Mandela spends a full day with his fellow Rivonia prisoners
24 December 1986 South Africa Nelson Mandela Mandela takes his first supervised drive through Cape Town in 22 years
6 December 1986 South Africa Nelson Mandela Mandela spends the afternoon speaking with Ahmed Kathrada
20 July 1986 South Africa Nelson Mandela Mandela holds his first meeting with Justice Minister Kobie Coetsee about talks
12 June 1986 South Africa Nelson Mandela A nationwide state of emergency expands apartheid repression
16 May 1986 South Africa Nelson Mandela The Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group meets Mandela again
6 May 1986 South Africa Nelson Mandela MPs Helen Suzman and Tian van der Merwe visit Mandela
12 March 1986 South Africa Nelson Mandela Mandela meets the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group
3 March 1986 South Africa Nelson Mandela Attorney Himie Bernardt visits Mandela
1 February 1986 South Africa Nelson Mandela Mandela consults his lawyer George Bizos at Pollsmoor
12 January 1986 South Africa Nelson Mandela Mandela is taken to the Pollsmoor gardens
23 November 1985 South Africa Nelson Mandela Mandela returns to Pollsmoor and is held apart from his comrades
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