Apartheid

The man who freed Mandela and shared his Nobel Prize spent his final years defending remarks about apartheid that his own foundation had to retract.

Twenty-seven years in prison did not soften his politics so much as narrow his focus to the one outcome he judged worth negotiating for.

1994

Four years of negotiation nearly collapsed twice, once after a massacre and once after an assassination, and the second crisis pushed the parties together rather than apart.