JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, March 15 (UPI) -- Former South African President Nelson Mandela reunited with a group of 20 people also put on trial during the fight against apartheid.
Mandela was accused three separate times during the struggle, including the historic Rivonia Trial, when he received a life prison sentence.
The reunion in Johannesburg was a part of Mandela's 90th birthday celebration in July, the BBC reported.
It is reported that Mandela has long wished to be united again with people who survived the landmark trials of the 1950s and 1960s.
Only 25 of the 150 people who appeared on trial in 1956 for suspected treason with Mandela are alive today.
"The people I met are people who selflessly committed themselves to building a free South Africa with justice and democracy, and a better life for all our people. And that struggle continues," said Dennis Goldberg, who was a part of the Rivonia Trial in 1964.
