20/20 Monday (ABC) - 2000-01-03 (with WNT close & KATU open)
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[0:01] Just a brief review of our main story
[0:03] today. The first business day of the
[0:04] year 2000 has come and gone without the
[0:06] Y2K problems that had concerned so many
[0:08] people, only a few computer problems
[0:10] were reported anywhere. Finding from us
[0:13] this evening, as hard as it is to
[0:15] believe, even in 24 hours of Millennium
[0:17] coverage, last Friday and Saturday
[0:18] night, there were some stunning moments
[0:20] we didn't get to. Just as it was
[0:22] midnight in South Africa, there was a
[0:23] technical failure and we didn't get to
[0:26] see this live.
[0:31] They were dancing at Robin Island just
[0:33] off the coast from Cape Town. This is
[0:35] where the white minority government kept
[0:37] the men and women with ideas that
[0:39] threatened them during the long black
[0:42] struggle for freedom. This is where
[0:44] Nelson Mandela spent almost two decades
[0:46] as a prisoner before he emerged to lead
[0:49] a movement for reconciliation.
[0:52] In his former cell, Mr. Mandela, who's
[0:54] now 81, lit the candle of freedom which
[0:57] he passed on to his successor, South
[0:59] Africa's current president, Tabo Becki.
[1:02] Mr. President,
[1:04] my hand I display flame of freedom to
[1:06] you.
[1:07] >> Mr. Debecki passed it on to Africa's
[1:09] next generation.
[1:11] >> Today it feels good to be an African.
[1:15] >> At the moment the new century began in
[1:18] the darkness of the prison courtyard,
[1:20] the children formed the shape of the
[1:22] continent. Mr. Rbecki said nothing would
[1:25] stop African progress.
[1:27] >> However improbable it may sound to the
[1:30] skeptics, Africa will prosper.
[1:33] >> Africa will prosper. Thanks for watching
[1:36] this special edition of World News
[1:38] Tonight on C