Just four months after being released from a South African prison in 1990, Nelson Mandela, the countryöÏÓãÊÓƵapp future president, was in the midst of an international tour, visiting countries that had supported the long fight for his release and against South AfricaöÏÓãÊÓƵapp apartheid policies. Canada was one of those stops, as reported by Tonia Desiato in The Register of June 30, 1990.