Even as a strapping young man,

Even as a strapping young man, Madiba’s first ever recorded interview inspires [video]

Turns out that 1961 television interview wasn’t Nelson Mandela’s first, watch Tata chatting to the camera during a break in the 1956 Treason Trial.

Even as a strapping young man,

It’s always been assumed that Brian Widlake’s 1961 interview with Madiba was the first time the Father of the Nation was recorded on camera; but the Nelson Mandela Foundation got its hands on this short clip of the man himself speaking to the camera back in 1956.

Even back then, during the four-and-a-half-year Treason Trial, Mandela’s words had a ring of greatness to them.

Check it out.