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Nelson Mandela's first press conference: Part two; Part 5 of 6 (Part One of Q&A)SOUTH AFRICA: Cape Town:EXTNelson Mandela (Deputy President of the African National Congress) speaking to press SOTQ: YOU’VE SPENT NEARLY HALF YOUR LIFE IN PRISON, IS THERE ANY BITTERNESS IN YOU- Well I have lost a great deal over this 27 years and my wife has been under all sorts of pressures / and this is not a nice feeling for a man to see his family struggling without security, without the dignity of the head of the family around / but despite the hard times we've had, we have also had the opportunity to think about problems / it's an opportunity which is also very rewarding in that regard, you learn to get used to your circumstances and in prison there have been men you know who are very good, in the sense they understand they have a point of view and they do everything to try and make you as happy as possible / and that has wiped out any bitterness that a man could haveQ: ON THE BASIS OF YOUR TALKS SO FAR HOW CLOSE ARE YOU TO HAVING A MEETING BETWEEN THE ANC AND THE GOVERNMENT- Well I am very confident that that day is not far / one thing I have been able to assess is that Mr De Klerk is a man of integrity and as I said yesterday he seems to be fully aware of the danger to a public figure of making undertakings / and I think that is a very promising sign / in my discussions with him he has been very flexible / but as an organisation of course we are concerned not so much with the personal virtues of an individual, our policies and strategies are determined by the harsh reality of the fact that the National Party has got a policy which is not so progressive and that is what determines our attitude / but I am confident that if Mr De Klerk is able to carry the National Party with him in the new line that he has taken, that he himself wants to normalise the situation as soon as possible; I think that very soon the obstacles to negotiation will be removed and it wou...