While working for PBS, Hunter-Gault was one of two correspondents granted an extended interview with South African leader Nelson Mandela after his 1991 release from prison. Hunter-Gault began her journalism career as a reporter for the New Yorker. Hunter-Gault has received numerous awards and honors, including two Emmys and a Peabody Award for work chronicling apartheid. In it, Hunter-Gault examines South Africa's ''African Renaissance,'' a term used by President Thabo Mbeki. I think I can answer that in two ways.
People do remember.
Over the years I've been constantly amazed at the people I've met in all kinds of places all over the world who remember me from those days as opposed to my life subsequent to those days. And of course that would be of a certain generation, but those people are still vital, and many of them are still active. So they remind me and that helps to remind myself. In a real sense I don't think I ever totally get away from it, because it was such a life-forming experience. I keep all of that uppermost in my mind.