Mandela letters returned after 30 years

A former apartheid policeman who helped jail Nelson Mandela more than 30 years ago today returned to him two notebooks of letters written in prison.

At the opening of the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and Commemoration, retired policemen Donald Card told the former South African president he had waited more than three decades to return the notebooks in which Mandela wrote drafts of prison letters between February 1969 and April 1971.