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Mandela's schedul release, when Cheryl Carolus at33-year-old high- school teacher who is spokeswoman.for e Mandela-family.said that Mr.Man- dela had,completed the signing of offi- cial documents related to his release earlier in the day but needed an extra hour at a bungalow inside the prison grounds with his wife, two daughters and old friends from his Robben island Carolus called "a situation that is going to be quite perplexing at the per- sonal level." -With many South Africans, whites as well as blacks, inclined in recent weeks to.see Mr. Mandela as a colossus who ycan somehow resolve the nation's polit- ical problems, it was a reminder that what lies ahead would be daunting for any man, let alone one who has spent! more than a quarter of a century largely cut off from the world. Something of that may have been on Mr. Mandela's mind when he referred. nCape Town.to his "long and lonely years in prison,when he-said that "no, individual leader" can dismantle, apartheid, and when he insisted that there could be no exception" to the rule that political leaders must be le- gitimized by elections among their fol- lowers. Still, much of what the black leader may-have encouraged him. Every. where - outside the prison, along the route into Cape Town, at the rally there were large numbers of whites among the blacks, far more proportion- ally than he would have seen during his days as a lawyer in Johannesburg in the 1950's. inThe road into Cape Town, through countryside alive with pink and red bougainvillea, and bordered by the glorious vista of the Franschoek moun- . 3 tains, would have been a particularly world for 40years- the crack of tear gas canisters being fired, the blast of striking experience, with thousands of Shotguns, and the whine of-ambulance whites, many of them in family groups, Sirens,some'of it duringthe black.lead-hand-lettered signs of support like waving, cheering, and holding aloft How Mr.Mandela reacted to any of "Welcome Home, Mandela!" from the! hatwas unknown, since the'black lead- roofs of their cars, from overpasses andfrom picnic tables. hat was to have ended his day But one Hardshipsin Prison remark he made, an appeal at the.end. of hisspeech for all attending the rally tohave been emotionally charged. As! to disperse without doing anything that six.white motorcycle policemen led the will lead others to say that we can't Mandela motorcade into Cape Town's control our own people, suburbs, the travelers had their first chagrin. glimpse of the Atlantic Ocean.There, Earlieraides sugg sted-thatbeing bathed in the sunshine of the late after- suddenly confronted.with realities out noon was Robben Island, the former side prison-might be taxing for,the anti leper colony five miles off shore where apartheid leader.althoughhehas been Mr.gMandela was taken first after a movedbetween prisons,andtromthe trial in 1962, and then held for 21 years. after his life sentence in 1964. Cape Town for his meetings wlthMr. de Klerk and Mr Botha, most of.his Company News: trips over the years have been at night The aides'suggestion came at the Tuesday through Friday,. rison during a 75-minute delay in Mr. Business Day