Nelson Mandela's first TV interview
The Nelson Mandela Foundation has discovered what is probably the first known television interview with the late former president Nelson Mandela.
The interview lasts only 24 seconds.
It seems to have been filmed during a break at the 1956 Treason Trial which lasted four-and-a-half years.
Mandela was with the last group of 28 accused in the marathon trial who were acquitted on 29 March 1961.
Days later he went underground until his arrest on 5 August 1962.
The recently resurfaced video was broadcast on 31 January 1961 by a Netherlands television broadcaster, AVRO. The rights holder, AVROTROS, has waived its licence fee for the Nelson Mandela Foundation and has authorised our use of it for one year.
"We are excited to have this historical material of what we now believe is the first television interview with Nelson Mandela," said Nelson Mandela Foundation CEO Sello Hatang.
The interview was conducted at the Old Synagogue in Pretoria which was used as a court for the Treason Trial.
It was included in a programme on apartheid South Africa called Boeren en Bantoes presented by Mr GBJ Hiltermann. It is unclear who conducted the interview and the exact date was not immediately available.
Among the others interviewed were Professor ZK Matthews, Ahmed Kathrada and Helen Joseph.
It was previously believed the first television interview was done while Nelson Mandela was underground in late May 1961. British journalist Brian Widlake was taken to his secret hide-out in Johannesburg for the interview.