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Although President de Klerk ordered Madiba's release in February 1990, negotiations had actually started secretly five years before.

A key figure who helped broker the agreement between the apartheid government and the ANC was a Briton called Michael Young.

A former politician, he was the public affairs director of the British mining company, Consolidated Goldfields with a vested interest in peace as the preferred environment for their operations.

With his company's backing, he set about trying to bring the two sides together - he explained what happened to ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Peter Ndoro.