Exhibition | Nelson Mandela From Prisoner to President Watch Mandela’s TV interview with Brian Widlake of ITN in May 1961. For a long time this was thought to be Mandela’s first TV interview until footage of an earlier interview recently surfaced. This interview took place more than a year after the Sharpeville Massacre, at a time when Mandela was in hiding. Here Mandela raises the possibility adopting an armed struggle in the face of the continued brutality of the state against “an unarmed and