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02 August 2021 - 19:38 By Chris Thurman

I have a fairly jaundiced view of the way Nelson Mandela the icon (rather than Nelson Mandela the historical figure) has been used, re-used, misrepresented and appropriated to a thousand purposes more or less anathema to the man and his mission...

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