First known television interview with Nelson Mandela from 1956 – video

Thursday 1 September 2016 | The Guardian

Nelson Mandela appears in what is thought to be his first known television interview, most likely filmed in 1956 during the ‘Treason Trial’. Mandela, sporting a beard and wearing a suit and tie, stands before a plain wall in what is said to be the Old Synagogue in Pretoria and tells the interviewer that the African National Congress intends to fight against racial discrimination “until freedom is achieved”. Prior to the discovery of the clip it was thought Mandela had not been interviewed for television until 1962.