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Ten years after South Africans mourned the loss of Nelson Mandela, his legacy still looms large – but is the huge political vacuum he left that affects our lives the most
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Nelson Mandela stood for something — a claim very few of our politicians could make today
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Textbooks erringly cast him as a messiah without flaws and largely divorce him from the ANC.
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My first meeting with Nelson Mandela was inauspicious, perhaps even undignified, writes the former president of the Azanian People’s Organisation.
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Reverend Mpho Tutu remembers Nelson Mandela’s love for children and pays tribute to the nurses, doctors and parents of children at the hospital.
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