Katie Crone-Barber

Nelson Mandela (ANC) Addresses Special Committee Against Apartheid

Nelson Mandela and the Politics of Legacy

by Katie Crone-Barber on December 6, 2013

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'Our march to freedom is irreversible.' When Nelson Mandela walked to freedom on 11 February 1990, the world celebrated. The man who had led the fight to end a barbaric system from behind prison walls

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